8vo. 324pp. Pict. Bds. The collected data, essays and observations of scientists of Project Washoe, which pioneered language and behavioral studies with chimpanzees. Includes a glossary of the total vocabulary of three of the chimps.

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Title

Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees

Publisher

NY: State University of New York

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0887069657

ISBN 13

9780887069659

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st ed., 1st ptg.

Condition

VG+

Dust Jacket Condition

No dustjacket as issued

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Synopsis

In this volume, the Gardners and their co-workers explore the continuity between human behavior and the rest of animal behavior and find no barriers to be broken, no chasms to be bridged, only unknown territory to be charted and fresh discoveries to be made.

With the beginning of Project Washoe in 1966, sign language studies of chimpanzees opened up a new field of scientific inquiry by providing a new tool for looking at the nature of language and intelligence and the relation between human and nonhuman intelligence. Here, the pioneers in this field review the unique procedures that they developed and the extensive body of evidence accumulated over the years. This close look at what the chimpanzees have actually done and said under rigorous laboratory conditions is the best answer to the heated controversies that have been generated by this line of research among ethologists, psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, and philosophers.

About the Author

R. Allen Gardner and Beatrix T. Gardner are Professors in the Department of Psychology and Fellows of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Nevada, Reno. Thomas E. Van Cantfort is Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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