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Doctor Dolittle's delusion : animals and the uniqueness of human language /
Can animals be taught a human language and use it to communicate? Or is human language unique to human beings, just as many complex behaviours of other species are uniquely theirs? This engrossing book explores communication and cognition in animals and humans from a linguistic point of view and ass...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Animals, language, and linguistics
- Language and communication
- On studying cognition
- The dance "language" of honeybees
- Sound in frog and man
- Birds and babies learning to speak
- What primates have to say for themselves
- Syntax
- Language is not just speech
- Language instruction in the laboratory
- Language, biology, and evolution.