Sign Language and Language Acquisition in Man and Ape: New Dimensions in Comparative Pedolinguistics

ISBN-13: 9780367287276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 262 str.

Fred C. C. Peng;Roger S Fouts;Duane M Rumbaugh

Opis

This volume brings together recent research findings on sign language and primatology and offers a novel approach to comparative language acquisition. The contributors are anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, psycholinguists, and manual language experts. They present a lucid account of what sign language is in relation to oral language, and o

Spis treści

Foreword -- Introduction -- Sign Language and Culture -- Code and Culture -- The American Sign Language Lexicon and Guidelines for the Standardization and Development of Technical Signs -- Language Acquisition in Apes and Children -- Sign Language in Chimpanzees -- Language Skills, Cognition, and the Chimpanzee -- Linguistic Capabilities of a Lowland Gorilla -- Linguistic Potentials of Nonhuman Primates -- Comments and Remarks

O autorze

Fred C. C Peng