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This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on
language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective
and from a developmental/learning perspective. Perspectives
regarding language and language acquisition are advanced by
scientists of various backgrounds -- speech, hearing, developmental
psychology, comparative psychology, and language intervention. This
unique volume searches for a rational interface between findings
and perspectives generated by language studies with humans and with
chimpanzees. Intended to render a reconsideration as to the essence
of language and the requisites to its acquisition, it also provides
readers with perspectives defined by various revisionists who hold
that language might be other than the consequence of a mutation
unique to humans and might, fundamentally, not be limited to
speech.
Dealing specifically with the origins and development of human
language, this book is based on a selection of materials from a
recent international conference held at the Center of
Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld in
Germany. The significance of the volume is that it testifies to
paradigmatic changes currently in progress. The changes are from
the typical emphasis on the syntactic properties of language and
cognition to an analysis of biological and cultural factors which
make these formal properties possible. The chapters provide
in-depth coverage of such topics as new theoretical foundations for
cognitive research, phylogenetic prerequisites and ontogenesis of
language, and environmental and cultural forces of development.
Some of the arguments and lines of research are relatively
well-known; others deal with completely new interdisciplinary
approaches. As a result, some of the authors' conclusions are in
part, rather counterintuitive, such as the hypothesis that language
as a system of formal symbolic transformations may be in fact a
very late phenomenon located in the sphere of socio-cultural and
not biological development. While highly debatable, this and other
hypotheses of the book may well define research questions for the
future.
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
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
This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on
language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective
and from a developmental/learning perspective. Perspectives
regarding language and language acquisition are advanced by
scientists of various backgrounds -- speech, hearing, developmental
psychology, comparative psychology, and language intervention. This
unique volume searches for a rational interface between findings
and perspectives generated by language studies with humans and with
chimpanzees. Intended to render a reconsideration as to the essence
of language and the requisites to its acquisition, it also provides
readers with perspectives defined by various revisionists who hold
that language might be other than the consequence of a mutation
unique to humans and might, fundamentally, not be limited to
speech.
This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on
language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective
and from a developmental/learning perspective. Perspectives
regarding language and language acquisition are advanced by
scientists of various backgrounds -- speech, hearing, developmental
psychology, comparative psychology, and language intervention. This
unique volume searches for a rational interface between findings
and perspectives generated by language studies with humans and with
chimpanzees. Intended to render a reconsideration as to the essence
of language and the requisites to its acquisition, it also provides
readers with perspectives defined by various revisionists who hold
that language might be other than the consequence of a mutation
unique to humans and might, fundamentally, not be limited to
speech.
A new way to look at the mysteries of the animal mind What is
animal intelligence? In what ways is it similar to human
intelligence? Many behavioral scientists have realized that animals
can be rational, can think in abstract symbols, can understand and
react to human speech, and can learn through observation as well as
conditioning many of the more complicated skills of life. Now Duane
Rumbaugh and David Washburn probe the mysteries of the animal mind
even further, identifying an advanced level of animal
behavior-emergents-that reflects animals' natural and active
inclination to make sense of the world. Rumbaugh and Washburn unify
all behavior into a framework they call Rational Behaviorism and
present it as a new way to understand learning, intelligence, and
rational behavior in both animals and humans. Drawing on years of
research on issues of complex learning and intelligence in primates
(notably rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees, and bonobos), Rumbaugh and
Washburn provide delightful examples of animal ingenuity and
persistence, showing that animals are capable of very creative
solutions to novel challenges. The authors analyze learning
processes and research methods, discuss the meaningful differences
across the primate order, and point the way to further advances,
enlivening theoretical material about primates with stories about
their behavior and achievements.
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