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Language comprehension in ape and child / E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh ... [et al.] ; with a commentary by Elizabeth Bates and a reply by the authors.

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  1. Language comprehension in ape and child / E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh ... [et al.] ; with a commentary by Elizabeth Bates and a reply by the authors.
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  1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.

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Additional authors
  1. Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue, 1946-
  2. Bates, Elizabeth.
  3. Society for Research in Child Development
Description
  1. vi, 256 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Series statement
  1. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; vol. 58, no. 3-4, serial no. 233
Uniform title
  1. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development v. 58, no. 3-4, serial no. 233.
Subject
  1. Language Development
  2. Animal communication
  3. Child Language
  4. Children > Language
  5. Pan troglodytes
Contents
  1. Introduction : of language, apes, and men -- The capacity to use words as referents -- Learning how words work : routines of talking coupled with doing -- The innateness debate -- Methods of the current study -- Results : Kanzi and Alia's performance on different sentence structures -- Discussion : why not grant syntactic competence to a sibling species? -- Appendix. Complete corpus of sentences and coded responses -- Commentary. Comprehension and production in early language development / Elizabeth Bates -- Reply. How does evolution design a brain capable of learning language? / E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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