What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it? This volume, originally published in 1976, describes 10 years of research devoted to these questions. The author describes his programmatic research of decomposing language into atomic constituents, designing and applying training programs for teaching these to chimpanzees, and for teaching chimps major human ontological categories, as well as for interrogative, declarative, and imperative sentence forms. One of the earliest ape language and intelligence studies, today this classic can be read and enjoyed again in its historical context.…mehr
What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it? This volume, originally published in 1976, describes 10 years of research devoted to these questions. The author describes his programmatic research of decomposing language into atomic constituents, designing and applying training programs for teaching these to chimpanzees, and for teaching chimps major human ontological categories, as well as for interrogative, declarative, and imperative sentence forms. One of the earliest ape language and intelligence studies, today this classic can be read and enjoyed again in its historical context.
Preface 1 Introduction 2 Subjects and General Procedure 3 The Physical Basis of Language 4 Early Failures 5 Later Success: Mapping a Social Transaction 6 Transfer 7 Early Concepts: Same-Different, No, and the Interrogative 8 "Name of" and Metalinguistics 9 Properties and Property Classes 10 Productivity: Use of Concepts to Generate New Instances of Themselves 11 Class Membership 12 Toward Logical Connectives and the Concept of Causality 13 Quantifiers and This/That 14 Synonymy 15 Words and Memory 16 Syntax 17 Mechanisms of Intelligence: Preconditions for Language. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
Preface 1 Introduction 2 Subjects and General Procedure 3 The Physical Basis of Language 4 Early Failures 5 Later Success: Mapping a Social Transaction 6 Transfer 7 Early Concepts: Same-Different, No, and the Interrogative 8 "Name of" and Metalinguistics 9 Properties and Property Classes 10 Productivity: Use of Concepts to Generate New Instances of Themselves 11 Class Membership 12 Toward Logical Connectives and the Concept of Causality 13 Quantifiers and This/That 14 Synonymy 15 Words and Memory 16 Syntax 17 Mechanisms of Intelligence: Preconditions for Language. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
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