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This is a critical assessment of recent experiments designed to impact a language, either natural or invented, to an ape. The ape's performance is compared with the course of semantic and syntactical development in children, both speaking and signing. The book also examines what is known of the neurological, cognitive, and specifically linguistical attributes of our species that subverse language.Wallman, Joel is the author of 'Aping Language' with ISBN 9780521406666 and ISBN 0521406668.
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