Why chimpanzees can't learn language and only humans can /
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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
