title: Beyond cry and laugh: toward a multilevel model of language production.
abstract: Language production is a multilevel phenomenon, and human capacities to communicate vocally progress from early forms, based on projections of motor cortex to brainstem nuclei, to complex elaborations, mediated by high-order cognition and fostered by socially mediated feedback.
authors.affiliation: Child and Family Research,Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,Rockledge I,Bethesda, MD 20892-7971,USA.Marc_H_Bornstein@nih.govhttp://www.cfr.nichd.nih.gov/index.html.
authors.forename: Marc H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Bornstein
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences,University of Trento,Trento, 38068,Italy.gianluca.esposito@unitn.ithttp://polorovereto.unitn.it/~esposito/
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Esposito
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology*; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*