Description
This book explores the biological and behavioral factors that contribute to language development. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating perspectives from various fields such as speech, hearing, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and language intervention. The book also compares language acquisition in humans and chimpanzees, challenging the idea that language is solely a result of a unique human mutation and suggesting that it may not be limited to speech. Overall, the book aims to provide a new understanding of the nature of language and its acquisition.
This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a developmental/learning perspective. Perspectives regarding language and language acquisition are advanced by scientists of various backgrounds -- speech, hearing, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and language intervention. This unique volume searches for a rational interface between findings and perspectives generated by language studies with humans and with chimpanzees. Intended to render a reconsideration as to the essence of language and the requisites to its acquisition, it also provides readers with perspectives defined by various revisionists who hold that language might be other than the consequence of a mutation unique to humans and might, fundamentally, not be limited to speech.
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