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Aping Language (Paperback)
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Aping Language (Paperback)
Series: Themes in the Social Sciences
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Total price: R1,301
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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.
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