Sign Language And Language Acquisition In Man And Ape

Author : Fred C. C. Peng,Roger S Fouts,Duane M Rumbaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000311464

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Sign Language And Language Acquisition In Man And Ape by Fred C. C. Peng,Roger S Fouts,Duane M Rumbaugh Pdf

This volume brings together recent research findings on sign language and primatology and offers a novel approach to comparative language acquisition. The contributors are anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, psycholinguists, and manual language experts. They present a lucid account of what sign language is in relation to oral language, and o

Author : Fred C. C. Peng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 0429306024

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Sign Language and Language Acquisition in Man and Ape by Fred C. C. Peng Pdf

This volume brings together recent research findings on sign language and primatology and offers a novel approach to comparative language acquisition. The contributors are anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, psycholinguists, and manual language experts. They present a lucid account of what sign language is in relation to oral language, and o

Author : Fred C. C. Peng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Animal communication
ISBN : 0781574455

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Sign Language and Language Acquisition in Man and Ape by Fred C. C. Peng Pdf

Author : Thomas A. Sebeok,Jean Umiker-Sebeok
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461330127

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Speaking of Apes by Thomas A. Sebeok,Jean Umiker-Sebeok Pdf

Author : Joel Wallman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521406668

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Aping Language by Joel Wallman Pdf

Language is regarded, at least in most intellectual traditions, as the quintessential human attribute, at once evidence and source of most that is considered transcendent in us, distinguishing ours from the merely mechanical nature of the beast. Even if language did not have the sacrosanct status it does in our conception of human nature, however, the question of its presence in other species would still promote argument, for we lack any universally accepted, defining features of language, ones that would allow us to identify it unequivocally ours from other species and contention over the crucial attributes of language are responsible for the stridency of the debate over whether nonhuman animals can learn language. Aping Language is a critical assessment of each of the recent experiments designed to impact a language, either natural or invented, to an ape. The performance of the animals in these experiments is compared with the course of semantic and syntactic development in children, both speaking and signing. The book goes on to examine what is known about the neurological, cognitive, and specifically linguistic attributes of our species that subserve language, and it discusses how they might have come into existence. Finally, the communication of nonhuman primates in nature is assayed to consider whether or not it was reasonable to assume, as the experimenters in these projects did, that apes possess an ability to acquire language.

Author : Herbert S. Terrace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231550017

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Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can by Herbert S. Terrace Pdf

In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named “Nim Chimpsky” in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language. Initially, Terrace thought that Nim could create sentences but later discovered that Nim’s teachers inadvertently cued his signing. Terrace concluded that Project Nim failed—not because Nim couldn’t create sentences but because he couldn’t even learn words. Language is a uniquely human quality, and attempting to find it in animals is wishful thinking at best. The failure of Project Nim meant we were no closer to understanding where language comes from. In this book, Terrace revisits Project Nim to offer a novel view of the origins of human language. In contrast to both Noam Chomsky and his critics, Terrace contends that words, as much as grammar, are the cornerstones of language. Retracing human evolution and developmental psychology, he shows that nonverbal interaction is the foundation of infant language acquisition, leading up to a child’s first words. By placing words and conversation before grammar, we can, for the first time, account for the evolutionary basis of language. Terrace argues that this theory explains Nim’s inability to acquire words and, more broadly, the differences between human and animal communication. Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can is a masterful statement of the nature of language and what it means to be human.

Author : R. Allen Gardner,Beatrix T. Gardner,Thomas E. Van Cantfort
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0887069657

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Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees by R. Allen Gardner,Beatrix T. Gardner,Thomas E. Van Cantfort Pdf

In this volume, the Gardners and their co-workers explore the continuity between human behavior and the rest of animal behavior and find no barriers to be broken, no chasms to be bridged, only unknown territory to be charted and fresh discoveries to be made. With the beginning of Project Washoe in 1966, sign language studies of chimpanzees opened up a new field of scientific inquiry by providing a new tool for looking at the nature of language and intelligence and the relation between human and nonhuman intelligence. Here, the pioneers in this field review the unique procedures that they developed and the extensive body of evidence accumulated over the years. This close look at what the chimpanzees have actually done and said under rigorous laboratory conditions is the best answer to the heated controversies that have been generated by this line of research among ethologists, psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, and philosophers.

Author : Sue Taylor Parker,Kathleen Rita Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521459699

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'Language' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes by Sue Taylor Parker,Kathleen Rita Gibson Pdf

This is the first collection of articles completely and explicitly devoted to the new field of 'comparative developmental evolutionary psychology' - that is, to studies of primate abilities based on frameworks drawn from developmental psychology and evolutionary biology. These frameworks include Piagetian and neo-Piagetian models as well as psycholinguistic ones. The articles in this collection - originating in Japan, Spain, Italy, France, Canada and the United States - represent a variety of backgrounds in human and nonhuman primate research, including psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, cultural and physical anthropology, ethology, and comparative psychology. The book focuses on such areas as the nature of culture, intelligence, language, and imitation; the differences among species in mental abilities and developmental patterns; and the evolution of life histories and of mental abilities and their neurological bases. The species studied include the African grey parrot, cebus and macaque monkeys, gorillas, orangutans, and both common and pygmy chimpanzees.

Author : Russell H. Tuttle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674073166

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Apes and Human Evolution by Russell H. Tuttle Pdf

In this masterwork, Russell H. Tuttle synthesizes a vast research literature in primate evolution and behavior to explain how apes and humans evolved in relation to one another, and why humans became a bipedal, tool-making, culture-inventing species distinct from other hominoids. Along the way, he refutes the influential theory that men are essentially killer apes—sophisticated but instinctively aggressive and destructive beings. Situating humans in a broad context, Tuttle musters convincing evidence from morphology and recent fossil discoveries to reveal what early primates ate, where they slept, how they learned to walk upright, how brain and hand anatomy evolved simultaneously, and what else happened evolutionarily to cause humans to diverge from their closest relatives. Despite our genomic similarities with bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas, humans are unique among primates in occupying a symbolic niche of values and beliefs based on symbolically mediated cognitive processes. Although apes exhibit behaviors that strongly suggest they can think, salient elements of human culture—speech, mating proscriptions, kinship structures, and moral codes—are symbolic systems that are not manifest in ape niches. This encyclopedic volume is both a milestone in primatological research and a critique of what is known and yet to be discovered about human and ape potential.

Author : Gary Greenberg,Ethel Tobach
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0898597226

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Cognition, Language, and Consciousness by Gary Greenberg,Ethel Tobach Pdf

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Robert W. Mitchell,Nicholas S. Thompson,H. Lyn Miles
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791431258

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Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals by Robert W. Mitchell,Nicholas S. Thompson,H. Lyn Miles Pdf

People commonly think that animals are psychologically like themselves (anthropomorphism), and describe what animals do in narratives (anecdotes) that support these psychological interpretations. This is the first book to evaluate the significance and usefulness of the practices of anthropomorphism and anecdotalism for understanding animals. Diverse perspectives are presented in thoughtful, critical essays by historians, philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists, behaviorists, biologists, primatologists, and ethologists. The nature of anthropomorphism and anecdotal analysis is examined; social, cultural, and historical attitudes toward them are presented; and scientific attitudes are appraised. Authors provide fascinating in-depth descriptions and analyses of diverse species of animals, including octopi, great apes, monkeys, dogs, sea lions, and, of course, human beings. Concerns about, and proposals for, evaluations of a variety of psychological aspects of animals are discussed, including mental state attribution, intentionality, cognition, consciousness, self-consciousness, and language.

Author : Robbins Burling
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199214037

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The Talking Ape by Robbins Burling Pdf

In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he gives us a deeper understanding of thenature of language itself.The author traces language back to its earliest origins among our distant ape-like forbears several million years ago. He offers a new account of the route by which we acquired our defining characteristic and explores the changing nature of language as it developed through the course of ourevolution. He considers what the earliest forms of communication are likely to have been, how they worked, and why they were deployed. He examines the qualities of mind and brain needed to support the operations of language and the advantages they offered for survival and reproduction. Heinvestigates the beginnings and prehistories of vocabulary and grammar; and connects work in fields extending from linguistics, sign languages, and psychology to palaeontology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology. And he does all this in a style that is crystal-clear, constantly enlivened by witand humour.

Author : J. de Luce,H.T. Wilder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461254966

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Language in Primates by J. de Luce,H.T. Wilder Pdf

This anthology was originally planned in connection with a symposium "Language in Primates: Implications for Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, and Philosophy," at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Publication of the book would not have been possible without the support given to the Symposium by many individuals and groups. The Editors thank everyone involved for their kind and generous assistance. Specifi cally, we thank the invited speakers at the Symposium, Thomas A. Sebeok, H. Lyn Miles, Roger S. Fouts, and Thomas Simon. The chapters in this book by Miles, Fouts, and Simon are revised versions of their lectures at the Symposium. We thank Edward Simmel for his encouragement, his patience with our efforts, and his help in planning and directing the Symposium. For their financial assistance, we thank the co-sponsors of the Symposium: the Sigma Chi Foundation/William P. Huffman Scholar-in Residence Program at Miami University, as well as the Departments of Classics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology at Miami. We thank Barbara Johnson, Polly J. Harris and Brenda Shaw for their secretarial and editorial help, and Shirley Gallimore for her patience, care, good humor, and hard work in typing the manuscript. Finally, we thank the contributors to this volume.

Author : Philipp Strazny
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135455231

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Encyclopedia of Linguistics by Philipp Strazny Pdf

Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-specialized reader. Containing over 500 alphabetically arranged entries and an expansive glossary by a team of international scholars, the Encyclopedia of Linguistics explores the varied perspectives, figures, and methodologies that make up the field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979-10
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000068696771

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf