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What ape language research means for representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Edward Kako
Edward Kako
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1390 [email protected] http://www.swarthmore.edu/socsci/ekako1
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Abstract

Shanker & King (S&K) rightly stress that recent ape language research has important implications for language development and origins. But the evidence does not warrant their conclusion that we can dispense with representations. Indeed, their own discussion of the nature of communication highlights the central role that representations must play in our models of communicative competence, in and out of language.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 5 , October 2002 , pp. 629
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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