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Sum: References on non-human language

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1. Steven Schaufele, references on non-human language

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There's been a fair amount of discussion about language among non-humans,
both publicly on LINGUIST and privately with me, since my previous summa-
ry in LINGUIST 6-28. I will shortly be posting a sort of update/summary
of much of this discussion, including some comments of my own; what fol-
lows here is a list of some references that some people have mentioned.

(NB: I'm merely reporting what others have passed on to me; i'm not neces-
sarily familiar with these materials myself. I got most of these referen-
ces from Rachel Lagunoff (ihw1009mvs.oac.ucla.edu), who is teaching a
course on this subject at UCLA, and George Williams (gwwnavisoft.com),
to whom i hereby offer many thanks.)

Barber, T. X. 1993. The Human Nature of Birds. New York: St. Martin's.

Bickerton, D. 1990. Language and Species. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.

Gardner, R. A., & B. T. Gardner. 1979. 'Teaching Sign Language to a
Chimpanzee' Science 165:664-672.

Gardner, R. A., B. T. Gardner, & T. E. van Cantfort, eds. 1989. Teach-
ing Sign Language to Chimpanzees. Albany: SUNY Press.

Herman, L. M. 1986. 'Cognition and Language Competencies of Bottle-
nosed Dolphins' R. J. Schusterman, J. Thomas, & F. G. Wood, eds., Dolphin
Cognition and Behavior: a Comparative Approach, pp. 221-252. Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum.

Herman, L. M. 1987. 'Receptive Competencies of Language-Trained Ani-
mals' Advances in the Study of Behavior 17:1-60.

Herman, L. M., & A. A. Pack. 1994. 'Animal Intelligence: Historical
Perspective and Comparative Approaches' R. Sternberg, ed., The Encyclo-
pedia of Intelligence.

Herman, L. M., A. A. Pack, & A. M. Wood. 1994. 'Bottlenosed Dolphins
can Generalize Rules and Develop Abstract Concepts'

Herman, L. M., A. A. Pack, & Morell-Samuels. 1993. 'Representational
and Conceptual Skills of Dolphins' in Roitblatt et al. 1993.

Herman, L. M., Richards, & Wolz. 1984. 'Comprehension of Sentences by
Bottlenosed Dolphins' Cognition 16:128-219.

Limber, J. 1977. 'Language in Child and Chimp?' American Psychologist
32:280-295 (reprinted in Sebeok & Umiker-Sebeok 1980:197-218).

Limber, J. 1978. 'Goodbye Behaviorism!' Behavioral and Brain Sciences
4:535-536.

Limber, J. 1982. 'What can Chimps Tell us About the Origins of Lan-
guage?' S. Kuczaj, ed., Language Development, 2:429-446. Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum.

Luce, J. de, & H. T. Wilder, eds. 1983. Language in Primates. New York:
Springer.

Neisser, A. 1990. 'Apeing Sign Language' The Other Side of Silence, pp.
202-234. Washington: Gallaudet University Press.

Nelson, K. 1987. 'What's in a Name? Reply to Seidenberg and Petitto'
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 116:293-296.

Patterson, F. G. 1978. 'The Gestures of a Gorilla: Language Acquisition
in Another Pongid' Brain and Language 5:72-97.

Patterson, F., & E. Linden. 1981. The Education of Koko. New York:
Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Peng, F., ed. 1978. Sign Language and Language Acquisition in Man and
Ape. Boulder: Westview.

Pepperberg, I. M. 1993. 'Cognition and Communication in an African Grey
Parrot (Psittacus erithacus): Studies on a Nonhuman, Nonprimate, Nonmam-
malian Subject' Roitblatt et al. 1993:221-248.

Pettito, L. A., & M. S. Seidenberg. 1979. 'On the Evidence for Linguis-
tic Abilities in Signing Apes' Brain and Language 8:162-183.

Pinker, S. 1994. The Language Instinct (chapter 11). New York: Morrow.

Premack, D., & A. J. Premack. 1983. The Mind of an Ape. New York:
Norton.

Roitblatt, H. L., L. M. Herman, & P. E. Nachtigall, eds. 1993. Language
and Communcation: Comparative Perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Savage-Rumbaugh. 1987. 'Communication, Symbolic Communication, and Lan-
guage: Reply to Seidenberg and Petitto' Journal of Experimental Psycholo-
gy: General, 116:279-287.

Savage-Rumbaugh, S., & R. Lewin. 1994. Kanzi. New York: Wiley.

Savage-Rumbaugh, S., K. McDonald, R. A. Sevick, W. D. Hopkins, & E.
Rupert. 1986. 'Spontaneous Symbol Acquisition and Communicative Use by
Pygmy Chimpanzees (Pan paniscus)' Journal of Experimental Psychology:
General, 115:211-235.

Sebeok, T., & J. Umiker-Sebeok, eds. 1980. Speaking of Apes. New York:
Plenum.

Seidenberg, M. S., & L. A. Petitto. 1987. 'Communication, Symbolic Com-
munication, and Language: Comment on Savage-Rumbaugh, McDonald, Sevick,
Hopkins, and Rupert (1986)' Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
116:279-287.

Terrace, H. S. 1987. Nim. New York: Columbia.

Terrace, H. S., L. A. Petitto, R. J. Sanders, & T. G. Bever. 1979. 'CAn
an Ape Create a Sentence?' Science 206:891-902.

Thomas, E. M. 1993. The Hidden Life of Dogs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Wallman, J. 1992. Aping Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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