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If a Chimpanzee Could Talk and Other Reflections on Language Acquisition
Dr. Jerry H. Gill
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Paperback. Num Pages: 163 pages. BIC Classification: CFDC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
How is it that chimpanzees can learn to "speak" at a higher level than some so-called wolf children? What happened that day in the pumphouse, when Helen Keller suddenly grasped the meaning of words? And picture this: a father and mother who shun the advice of professionals, who doggedly force their way into the closed world of their autistic son, and who reverse his grim prognosis, revealing him to be gifted. How to explain? In this book, a philosopher combines these famous cases with a lifetime of study to examine the threshold of language--that point "between speech and not quite ... Read more
How is it that chimpanzees can learn to "speak" at a higher level than some so-called wolf children? What happened that day in the pumphouse, when Helen Keller suddenly grasped the meaning of words? And picture this: a father and mother who shun the advice of professionals, who doggedly force their way into the closed world of their autistic son, and who reverse his grim prognosis, revealing him to be gifted. How to explain? In this book, a philosopher combines these famous cases with a lifetime of study to examine the threshold of language--that point "between speech and not quite ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
163
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816516698
SKU
V9780816516698
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