Origins of Human Language: Continuities and Discontinuities with Nonhuman Primates

Louis-Jean Boë, Pascal Perrier and Jean-Luc Schwartz are speech scientists in GIPSA-lab, Université Grenoble Alpes & CNRS, France. Joël Fagot is a primatologist specialist of animal cognition in Aix-Marseille University, France.

• Vocal Repertoire of Captive Guinea Baboons – Exploring Baboon Vocalizations with Speech Science Techniques – Origins of Human Consonants and Vowels: Articulatory Continuities with Great Apes – Comparative Anatomy of the Baboon and Human Vocal Tracts – Evolution of the laryngeal motor cortex for speech production – Motor and Communicative Correlates of the Inferior Frontal Gyrus – From Animal Communication to Linguistics and Back – Primate Roots of Speech and Language – What gestures of nonhuman primates can (and cannot) tell us about language evolution – Dendrophilia and the Evolution of Syntax – Comparing Human and Nonhuman Animal Performance on Domain-General Functions