Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 2019
248 pages
978-0-231-55001-7 (ISBN)
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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 Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can
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Herbert Terrace is a Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and director of the Primate Cognition Lab. He is the author of Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language (Columbia University Press, 1987) and more recently the editor of Agency and Joint Attention (with Janet Metcalfe, Oxford University Press, 2013).Herbert S. Terrace is professor of psychology at Columbia University, where he is the director of the Primate Cognition Lab. His books include Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language (Columbia, 1987).
Herbert Terrace is a Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and director of the Primate Cognition Lab. He is the author of Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language (Columbia University Press, 1987) and more recently the editor of Agency and Joint Attention (with Janet Metcalfe, Oxford University Press, 2013).Herbert S. Terrace is professor of psychology at Columbia University, where he is the director of the Primate Cognition Lab. His books include Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language (Columbia, 1987).
Content
Preface
Prologue
1. Numberless Gradations
2. Ape Language
3. Recent Human Ancestors and the Possible Origin of Words
4. Before an Infant Learns to Speak
5. The Origin of Language, Words in Particular
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
