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APES, LANGUAGE, AND THE HUMAN MIND
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| By: |
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, S. G. Shanker, Talbot J. Taylor |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195109864 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195109863 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 1998 |
| Pages: |
254 |
| Description: |
For more than twenty years, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been studying and attempting to prove the linguistic and cognitive skills of a number of laboratory-reared primates. Recently, her work with Kanzi (a bonobo) has been acknowledged as achieving a scientific breakthrough of stunning proportions. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind discusses the theoretical and conceptual implications of Savage-Rumbaugh's work for cognitive, developmental, and linguisticresearch, and uses it as a spring board to argue for a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind. |
| Synopsis: |
For more than twenty years, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been studying the linguistic and cognitive skills of a number of laboratory-reared primates. Recently, her work with Kanzi (a bonobo) has been acknowledged as having achieved a scientific breakthrough of stunning proportions: Kanzi has acquired linguistic and cognitive skills equal to those of a 2-1/2 year-old human child. Apes, Language and the Human Mind skillfully combines the exciting narrative regarding the Kanzi research with incisive critical analysis of the research's broader linguistic, psychological, and anthropological implications. Sure to be controversial, this exciting new volume offers a radical revision of the sciences of language and mind. |
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36 black and white photographs |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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