Yvonne Zürcher

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yvonne Zürcher is involved.

Articles

Burkart, Judith M., Eloisa Guerreiro Martins, Fabia Miss and Yvonne Zürcher 2020 From sharing food to sharing information: Cooperative breeding and language evolution How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 136–150 | Chapter

Language is a cognitively demanding human trait, but it is also a fundamentally cooperative enterprise that rests on the motivation to share information. Great apes possess many of the cognitive prerequisites for language, but largely lack the motivation to share information. Callitrichids… read more

Burkart, Judith M., Eloisa Guerreiro Martins, Fabia Miss and Yvonne Zürcher 2018 From sharing food to sharing information: Cooperative breeding and language evolution How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 136–150 | Article

Language is a cognitively demanding human trait, but it is also a fundamentally cooperative enterprise that rests on the motivation to share information. Great apes possess many of the cognitive prerequisites for language, but largely lack the motivation to share information. Callitrichids… read more