Pär Segerdahl, William Fields and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Palgrave Macmillan
Hardcover: 130 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (March 3, 2006)
Language: English
Kanzi’s Primal Language offers important new knowledge into how culture and language interlace in early childhood by showing how Kanzi originally acquired language when he was a young ape – spontaneously in a culture he shared with humans.
“Kanzi’s language acquisition overthrows the theoretical framework in which people have tried to imagine what it means for a child to develop language – it is neither innate nor learned through training or imitation,” says Fields. “Language is a spontaneous companion to how one tangibly lives and serves as a reflection of the ideational system that emerges as an aspect of cultural ontogeny and development. You don’t teach the brain language any more than you teach the brain to think.”
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