Speaking of Apes: A Critical Anthology of Two-Way Communication with Man

483 Pages·1980·11.97 MB·English

by  Jean Umiker-Sebeok

_SReaking of AR_eS_
A Critical Anthology of
Two-Way Communication with Man
TOPICS IN CONTEMPORAR Y SEMIOTICS
Series Editors: Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok
Indiana University
SPEAKING OF APES
Edited by Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok
_SQeaking of AIJ_e_s _
A Critical Anthology of
Two-Way Communication with Man
Edited by
Thomas A. Sebeok
and
Jean Umiker-Sebeok
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
Plenum Press . New York and London
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Speaking of apes.
(Topics in contemporary semiotics) Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Chimpanzees-Psychology. 2. Human-animal communication. 3. Language
and languages; 4. Animal communication. I. Sebeok, Thomas Albert, 1920-
II. Umiker-Sebeok, Jean.
QL 737. P96S63 599' .884 79-17714
ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-3014-1 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-3012-7
DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4613-3012-7
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CONTRIBUTORS
URSULA BELLUGI, The Salk Institute, San Diego, California
T. G. BEVER, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, New
York
SALL Y BOYSEN, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University,
Atlanta, Georgia
JACOB BRONOWSKI, Late of The Salk Institute, San Diego, California
ROGER BROWN, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
N OAM CHOMSKY, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
ROGER S. FOUTS, Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Norman,
Oklahoma
BEATRICE T. GARDNER, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno,
Nevada
R. ALLEN GARDNER, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno,
Nevada
ALICE F. HEALY, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut
H. HEDIGER, Emeritus, University of Zurich, Switzerland
JANE H. HILL, Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit,
Michigan
WINTHROP N. KELLOGG, Late of the Department of Psychology, Florida State
University, Tallahassee, Florida
ERIC H. LENNEBERG, Late of the Department of Psychology, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York
JOHN LIMBER, Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, Dur
ham, New Hampshire
WILLIAM A. MALMI, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Con
cord, California
PETER MARLER, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
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viii CONTRIBUTORS
DAVID McNEILL, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago, Chi-
cago, Illinois
GEORGES MOUNIN, Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
RANDALL L. RIGBY, HHB 2/17 FA, APO SF %251
DUANE M. RUMBAUGH, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, Georgia
E. SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory
University, Atlanta, Georgia
THOMAS A. SEBEOK, Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana
H. S. TERRACE, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, New
York
JEAN UMIKER-SEBEOK, Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, Indi
ana University, Bloomington, Indiana
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The editors wish to thank the following for permission to reprint copyrighted mate
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tal Analysis of Behavior 31, 161-175, 1979. Copyright 1979 by the Society for the
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Texas Press, 1979. Reprinted with permission of the publisher and author.