| Aping Language Contributor(s): Wallman, Joel (Author), Joel, Wallman (Author), Goody, Jack (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521404878 ISBN-13: 9780521404877 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $85.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1992 Annotation: This book is a critique of the experiments of recent years that tried to teach language to apes. The achievements of these animals are compared with the natural development of language, both spoken and signed forms, in children. It is argued that the apes in these studies acquired merely crude simulations of language rather than language itself and that there is no good evidence that apes can acquire a language. A survey of the communication systems of apes and monkeys in nature finds that these systems differ from language in profound ways--language is a uniquely human attribute. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Nature | Animals - Primates |
| Dewey: 599.880 |
| LCCN: 91028564 |
| Series: Themes in the Social Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.04 lbs) 204 pages |