Sign Language and Language Acquisition in Man and Ape - New Dimensions in Comparative Pedolinguistics

List of contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- Sign Language and Culture -- Code and Culture -- The American Sign Language Lexicon and Guidelines for the Standardization and Development of Technical Signs -- Language Acquisition in Apes and Children -- Sign Language in Chimpanzees -- Language Skills, Cognition, and the Chimpanzee -- Linguistic Capabilities of a Lowland Gorilla -- Linguistic Potentials of Nonhuman Primates -- Comments and Remarks

About the author

Fred C. C Peng

Summary

This volume presents a lucid account of what sign language is in relation to oral language, and of the capacity of nonhuman primates to learn specific, human-origin language systems.

Product details

• Authors: Roger S Fouts, Roger S Rumbaugh Fouts, Fred C. C. Peng, Fred C. C. Fouts Peng, Duane M Rumbaugh
• Assisted by: Fred C. C. Peng (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367287276
• ISBN: 978-0-367-28727-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General