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Infant Cries As Evolutionary Melodrama: Extortion or Deception? 婴儿哭声是进化的情节剧:敲诈还是欺骗?

Evolution of Communication Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EOC.2.1.03THO

N. S. Thompson, Brian Dessureau, C. Olson

引用次数: 10

The evolution of functionally referential alarm communication: Multiple adaptations; multiple constraints 功能参考报警通信的进化:多重适应多个约束条件

Evolution of Communication Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EOC.3.2.03BLU

D. Blumstein

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引用次数: 75

Species of Mind. The philosophy and biology of cognitive ethology. Colin Allen & Marc Bekoff 心灵的种类。认知行为学的哲学和生物学。科林·艾伦和马克·贝科夫

Evolution of Communication Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EOC.2.2.08MAE

D. Maestripieri

引用次数: 0

A FUNCTIONALIST APPROACH TO GRAMMAR AND ITS EvoLUTION 功能主义的语法研究方法及其演变

Evolution of Communication Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EOC.2.2.06BYB

Joan Bybee

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引用次数: 81

The role of self-organisation in the emergence of phonological systems 自组织在语音系统出现中的作用

Evolution of Communication Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EOC.3.1.04DEM

Didier Demolin, A. Soquet

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引用次数: 6

Evolution and self-organisation in vowel systems 元音系统的演化与自组织

Evolution of Communication Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EOC.3.1.06BOE

B. D. Boer

引用次数: 8

Neandertal man was not morphologically handicapped for speech 尼安德特人在形态学上并没有语言障碍

Evolution of Communication Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EOC.3.1.05BOE

L. Boë, S. Maeda, J. Heim

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引用次数: 23

The Ontogeny of Chimpanzee Gestural Signals: A Comparison Across Groups and Generations 黑猩猩手势信号的个体发生:跨群体和世代的比较

Evolution of Communication Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EOC.1.2.04TOM

M. Tomasello, J. Call, Jennifer A. W. Warren, G. Frost, M. Carpenter, Katherine Nagell

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引用次数: 181

Vibrational Communication in Subterranean Rodents: The Possible Origin of Different Strategies 地下啮齿类动物的振动交流:不同策略的可能起源

Evolution of Communication Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EOC.2.2.04FRA

G. Francescoli, C. Altuna

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引用次数: 7

From doing to saying 从做到说

Evolution of Communication Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1075/EOC.3.2.05HAI

J. Haiman

引用次数: 4