Sign Language And Language Acquisition In Man And Ape

This volume presents a lucid account of what sign language is in relation to oral language, and of the capacity of nonhuman primates to learn specific, human-origin language systems.

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This volume brings together recent research findings on sign language and primatology and offers a novel approach to comparative language acquisition. The contributors are anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, psycholinguists, and manual language experts. They present a lucid account of what sign language is in relation to oral language, and o