Cognitive development of vocal communication in nonhuman primates and humans.

该项目概述了从婴儿早期到单词话语开始的表达和沟通行为的发展方法。正孝信夫的研究植根于动物行为学和动态行动理论。他认为，表达和交流行为是与婴儿的生理、行为和社会环境的其他因素一起组成的一个复杂的合作系统。总的来说，人类具有有限的一组特定的行为模式，每一种行为模式都是作为灵长类物种遗传的。然而，在个体发育过程中，这些模式是独特的，并且出现了一个协调的结构，最终导致我们获得语言。这本引人入胜的书提供了令人兴奋的，新的见解的前身讲话，将感兴趣的研究人员和学生的心理学，语言学和动物行为生物学。

The Project outlines an approach to the development of expressive and communicative behavior from early infancy to the onset of single-word utterances. Nobuo Masataka's research is rooted in ethology and dynamic action theory. He argues that expressive and communicative actions are organized as a complex and cooperative system with other elements of the infant's physiology, behavior and the social environments.Overall, humans are provided with a finite set of specific behavior patterns, each of which is phylogenetically inherited as a primate species. However, the patterns are uniquely organized during ontogeny and a coordinated structure emerges which eventually leads us to acquire language. This fascinating book offers exciting, new insights into the precursors of speech and will be of interest to researchers and students of psychology, linguistics and animal behavior biology.