Why chimpanzees can't learn language and only humans can /
[Book]
Herbert S. Terrace.
New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2019]
1 online resource (xxii, 219 pages) :
illustrations
University seminars: Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Prologue -- Innumerable gradations -- Ape language -- Recent human ancestors and the possible origin of words -- Before an infant learns to speak -- The origin of language, words in particular -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Herbert S. Terrace revisits his 1970s experiment to teach a chimpanzee language, 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.
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Why chimpanzees cannot learn language and only humans can
Animal intelligence.
Chimpanzees-- Behavior.
Human behavior.
Language and languages-- Origin.
Animal intelligence.
Chimpanzees-- Behavior.
Human behavior.
Language and languages-- Origin.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.