Ape Language : : From Conditioned Response to Symbol / / E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue,
• TeilnehmendeR: Terrace, Herbert S.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1986]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 1986
• Language: English
• Series: Animal Intelligence
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (434 p.)

Examines ape language using behavior and how they can be taught to develop similar skills to that of a two year old child. Looks at the behavioral changes that take place in apes as their language skills develop. Goes on to apply the research findings to human beings experiencing difficulties acquiring language.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Animal Intelligence Series -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Humans, Apes, and Language -- Chapter 2. In the Beginning Was the Request -- Chapter 3. The Project and the System -- Chapter 4. Apes Who Don’t Learn What You Try To Teach Them -- Chapter 5. Talking to Teachers Instead of Machines -- Chapter 6. The Functions of Symbols: Requesting, Naming, Comprehending -- Chapter 7. First Symbolic Communications: From Sherman to Austin, From Austin to Sherman -- Chapter 8. Giving, Taking, and Sharing: The Currency of Symbolic Exchange -- Chapter 9. Tools: The Key To Learning That Objects Also Have Names -- Chapter 10. The Intermeshing of Gesture and Symbol -- Chapter 11. When a Lexigram Becomes a Symbol -- Chapter 12. Anecdotes: Chance Occurrences, or Important Indicators -- Chapter 13. Video Representations of Reality -- Chapter 14. Making Statements -- Chapter 15. Implications for Language Intervention Research: A Nonhuman Primate Model -- Chapter 16. Ape-Language Research Beyond Nim -- Chapter 17. Ape-Language Research: Past, Present and Future -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names -- Subject Index