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View ArticleWhy Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language: My Rollercoaster Experience Trying to...
“Language seems to be a miracle; even our closest relatives, the great apes, lack any capacity for the grammatical structures that make human language unique. Herbert Terrace goes further and shows...
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For today’s Science Friday blog post, Herbert S. Terrace continues his series on the origin of language based on his book Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can. In this installment,...
View ArticleAlfred Wallace’s Problem: Can the Theory of Evolution Explain Language? By...
“With characteristic clarity, [Terrace] gives a convincing account of language evolution in Darwinian terms, without appeal to miracles. This is an important new approach to an old and vexed problem.”...
View ArticleWhich Human Ancestor Invented Words? By Herbert S. Terrace
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View ArticleNew Book Tuesday! The New Slave Narrative, Journalism in the Age of Virtual...
Our weekly list of new books is now available! The New Slave Narrative The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery Laura T. Murphy Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents Edited by...
View ArticleNim Chimpsky and Noam Chomsky: Why Language Began with Words
“Herbert S. Terrace, known for his breakthrough work on the ape, Nim Chimpsky, now shines light on language acquisition in human children. In this masterful work, Terrace provides extraordinarily novel...
View ArticleWhy Animal Communication Is Not Language: The Gap Between Expressing Emotion...
“In this work, the distinguished psychologist Herbert S. Terrace illustrates a unique comparative perspective on the nature and evolution of language.” ~ Charles Yang, author of The Infinite Gift: How...
View ArticleWhy Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language: My Rollercoaster Experience Trying to...
“Language seems to be a miracle; even our closest relatives, the great apes, lack any capacity for the grammatical structures that make human language unique. Herbert Terrace goes further and shows...
View ArticleWhy a Chimpanzee Can’t Learn Language: They Can’t Learn That Things Have Names
For today’s Science Friday blog post, Herbert S. Terrace continues his series on the origin of language based on his book Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can. In this installment,...
View ArticleAlfred Wallace’s Problem: Can the Theory of Evolution Explain Language? By...
“With characteristic clarity, [Terrace] gives a convincing account of language evolution in Darwinian terms, without appeal to miracles. This is an important new approach to an old and vexed problem.”...
View ArticleWhich Human Ancestor Invented Words? By Herbert S. Terrace
“Language seems to be a miracle; even our closest relatives, the great apes, lack any capacity for the grammatical structures that make human language unique. Herbert Terrace goes further and shows...
View ArticleNonVerbal Precursors of Language: Intersubjective Relations Provide an...
Today, we are sharing the the next edition in this blog post series on The Origins of Language, by Herbert S. Terrace, author of Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can. In this post,...
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