Titlebook: Speaking of Apes; A Critical Anthology Thomas A. Sebeok,Jean Umiker-Sebeok Book 1980 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1980 Syntax.c

极小

crucial

Language, Communication, Chimpanzees,f man, and this element probably accounts for the previous failures observed by authors such as Yerkes. Second, while the young ape very rapidly loses interest in and aptitude for vocal prattle, it retains an abundant gestural prattle, remaining, as an adult, a very imitative and gesticulatory animal.

Gesture

Daily-Value

Outspoken

说笑

懒洋洋

Synapse

The First Sentences of Child and Chimpanzee,ee Processes in the Acquisition of Syntax” (1964a), had described one sort of common adult response to the telegraphic sentences of very young children, the kind of response called an “expansion.” An expansion is essentially a reading of the child’s semantic intention. Thus, when Eve said, “Mommy lu

arousal

ODIUM

Of Language Knowledge, Apes, and Brains,does in a feline fashion; whatever man does, he does in a human fashion. This may be taken as an axiom (or truism, for that matter, for how could it be otherwise?). An animal cannot change its constitution between behaviors; every movement, every sensation, every insight, every motive is mediated, c