Aping Language |
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| Author:
| Wallman, Joel |
| Contribution by:
| Dunn, John
Goody, Jack
Hawthorn, Geoffrey |
| Series title: | Themes in the Social Sciences Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-40487-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1992 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $133.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.