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Current Topics in Primate Vocal Communication (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
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Current Topics in Primate Vocal Communication (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
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More than 25 years ago, the first major review of primate
communication appeared (Altmann, 1967). Since then, information on
the communicative abilities of primates increased rapidly,
resulting, 15 years later, in the appearance of the first volume in
which signaling systems were analyzed in a broader variety of
primate groups within an evolutionary perspective (Snowdon, Brown
and Petersen, 1982). Seven years later, the first volume dedicated
solely to primate vocal communication appeared (Todt, Goedeking and
Symmes, 1988) and another four years later a volume followed in
which nonverbal vocal communication in non-human primates and human
infants was compared (Papousek, Jurgens and Papousek, 1992). None
of these volumes, however, provided information about current
technical advances in the field of bioacoustics, especially in
digital sound analyzing systems, which offer primatologists,
anthropologists and linguists nowadays a variety of rapid methods
for analyzing human speech and non-human primate vocalizations in a
quantitative and comparative way. Choosing the right method is
difficult if a synopsis of these tools is lacking. Furthermore,
information was particularly lacking on the natural signaling
systems of two important primate groups, the prosimians and the
apes. Likewise, new and unexpected insights into the ontogeny and
evolution of vocal communication were gained during the past few
years by the use of highly sophisticated sound analysis and
statistical techniques.
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