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Download full textHewes, Gordon W. – 1975
Experiments in teaching language or language-like behavior to chimpanzees and other primates may bear on the problem of the origin of language. Evidence appears to support the theory that man's first language was gestural. Recent pongid language experiments suggest: (1) a capacity for language is not solely human and therefore does not represent…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Evolution, Language, Language Ability
