Ebook: Language in Primates: Perspectives and Implications
- Tags: Psychology general, Acoustics
- Series: Springer Series in Language and Communication 11
- Year: 1983
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Apes Who “Talk”: Language or Projection of Language by Their Teachers?....Pages 19-42
Apes and Language: The Search for Communicative Competence....Pages 43-61
Chimpanzee Language and Elephant Tails: A Theoretical Synthesis....Pages 63-75
Genes, Evolution and Language in Apes: The Nature of the Phenotypes....Pages 77-83
Communication in Primates....Pages 85-96
Limits of Primate Talk....Pages 97-111
Ethics, Animals, and Language....Pages 113-124
Linguistic Innateness and Its Evidence....Pages 125-136
Talk to the Animals....Pages 137-145
Apes Who Sign and Critics Who Don’t....Pages 147-158
Prospects for a Cognitive Ethology....Pages 159-186
Back Matter....Pages 187-198
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Apes Who “Talk”: Language or Projection of Language by Their Teachers?....Pages 19-42
Apes and Language: The Search for Communicative Competence....Pages 43-61
Chimpanzee Language and Elephant Tails: A Theoretical Synthesis....Pages 63-75
Genes, Evolution and Language in Apes: The Nature of the Phenotypes....Pages 77-83
Communication in Primates....Pages 85-96
Limits of Primate Talk....Pages 97-111
Ethics, Animals, and Language....Pages 113-124
Linguistic Innateness and Its Evidence....Pages 125-136
Talk to the Animals....Pages 137-145
Apes Who Sign and Critics Who Don’t....Pages 147-158
Prospects for a Cognitive Ethology....Pages 159-186
Back Matter....Pages 187-198
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