Gavagai!: Or the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy

(Part of the Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change Series)

by David Premack

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If we meet an extraterrestrial who keeps shouting "gavagai!", how are we to decode its meaning? Do bees and dolphins possess a linguistic competence? Did the chimpanzees Sara, Washoe, and Nim acquire a human-like language? In this book, Premack examines our human fascination with using language as a tool to our understanding of ourselves. He clearly and wittily untangles the complex skein of arguments, put forth since Darwin's time, over whether we...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262160994

ISBN13:9780262160995

Release Date:January 1986

Publisher:MIT Press (MA)

Length:164 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

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Gavagai!: Or the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy

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