Routes to Child Language

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The book explores the foundational abilities for language in nonhuman primates and human infants, emphasizing phylogenetic and ontogenetic continuity. It examines essential behaviors for language acquisition, including vocalizations, meaning mapping, gestural communication, tool use, object concept, and memory. By analyzing similarities and differences in these precursors across species, the author discusses their implications for the evolution of language and presents hypotheses regarding its origins.