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Zusammenfassung How do children and other young animals learn to communicate? This book shows the importance of social companions in the structure! comprehension and usage of vocal communication in later life! and that vocal development occurs throughout life. It will be required reading for all those interested in animal or human communication. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Charles T. Snowdon and Martine Hausberger; 2. Social interaction and sensitive phases for song learning: a critical review Douglas A. Nelson; 3. Social interaction and vocal development in birds Luis F. Baptista and Sandra L. L. Gaunt; 4. Building a social agenda for the study of bird song Meredith J. West, Andrew P. King and Todd M. Freeberg; 5. Field observations, experimental design and the time and place of learning in bird songs Robert B. Payne and Laura L. Payne; 6. Vocal learning in wild and domesticated Zebra Finches: signature cues for kin recognition or epiphenomena? Richard Zann; 7. What birds with complex social relationships can tell us about vocal learning: vocal sharing in avian groups Eleanor D. Brown and Susan M. Farabaugh; 8. Social influences on song acquisition and sharing in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Martine Hausberger; 9. Social influences on the acquisition of human-based codes in parrots and nonhuman primates Irene Maxine Pepperberg; 10. Vocal learning in captive bottlenose dolphins: a comparison to humans and nonhuman animals Brenda McCowan and Diana Reiss; 11. Vocal learning in cetaceans Peter L. Tyack and Laela S. Sayigh; 12. Social influences on vocal development in New World primates Charles T. Snowdon, A. Margaret Elowson and Rebecca S. Roush; 13. Some general features of vocal development in nonhuman primates Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney; 14. Social influences on vocal learning in human and nonhuman primates John L. Locke and Catherine Snow; 15. The resilience of language in humans Susan Goldin-Meadow; 16. Reciprocal interactions and the development of communication and language between parents and children Annick Jouanjean-l'Antoëne; 17. Crafting activities: building social organization through language in girls' and boys' groups Marjorie Harness Goodwin; Index....
