Aping Language

Zusammenfassung This is a critical assessment of recent experiments designed to impact a language! either natural or invented! to an ape. The ape's performance is compared with the course of semantic and syntactical development in children! both speaking and signing. The book also examines what is known of the neurological! cognitive! and specifically linguistical attributes of our species that subverse language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Part I. Background: 1. Introduction; 2. History of the ape-language projects; Part II. The Artificial-Language Projects: 3. The Lana project; 4. The Sarah project; Part III. Apes and Language: Ontogeny: 5. Words; 6. Sentences; Part IV. Apes and Language: Phylogeny: 7. Language, evolution, and anatomy; 8. Primate communication in nature; Part V. Conclusion: 9. The chimpanzee and the Chinese room; Notes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Wallman Joel, Joel Wallman
• Assisted by: Jack Goody (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.1992
• EAN: 9780521404877
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40487-7
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Themes in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology