Note: Front Cover -- Language and Communication: Comparative Perspectives -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Cognitive Processing in Artificial Language Research: Herbert L. Roitblat, Heidi E. Harley, and David A. Helweg -- Animal language research and its controversies -- The value of animal language research -- Some general issues in cognitive processing -- Meaning and reference -- Syntax -- Pragmatics -- Conclusion -- 2. Beyond Animal Language: Gary Bradshaw -- The path to language -- Limitations of the Signature Characteristic Strategy -- Beyond Animal Language -- Conclusion -- 3. Similarities and Differences in Human and Animal Language Research: Toward a Comparative Psychology of Language: Stan A. Kuczaj II and Virginia M. Kirkpatrick -- What is the study of language? -- Is human language an appropriate standard for comparative language research? -- Questions generated by the human language standard -- What are the language units of various language systems? -- How meaningful are the symbolic units of various language systems? -- Do nonhuman language systems involve syntax? -- What functions do the languages of other species serve? -- Concluding remarks -- 4. Knowing How to Use Language: Developing a Rapprochement Between Two Theoretical Traditions: William Bechtel -- Symbol processing versus associationism -- Ryle's distinction between knowing how and knowing that -- The promise of connectionism to explain knowing how -- The contribution of animal language research -- Conclusion -- 5. A Proposal for Computer Modeling of Animal linguistic Comprehension: Earl Hunt -- The theoretical issue raised by animal linguistic comprehension -- 6. Language Acquisition and the Power of Expression: Lois Bloom -- The "tool use" metaphor -- Language as expression -- Language, emotion, and cognition. , Expression of beliefs, desires, and feelings -- Allocating cognitive resources for emotional expression and words -- 7. Animal Language Research Needs a Broader Comparative and Evolutionary Framework: Peter L. Tyack -- The evolution of domain specific cognitive processes -- Capability versus skill -- Problems in applying language analogies to animals -- Vocal learning and imitation -- Signature whistles in wild dolphins -- Vocal imitation in adult captive dolphins -- Do dolphins imitate signature whistles to call specific individuals? -- Ethological suggestions for animal language research -- 8. Frequency-modulated Whistles as a Medium for Communication with the Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): John Sigurdson -- Method -- Conclusions -- 9. Unguistic Phenomena in the Natural Communication of Animals: Charles T. Snowdon -- Phonetic variation and categorization -- Social components of communication -- Syntax -- Referential communication -- Summary and conclusions -- 10. Meaning, Reference, and Intentionality in the Natural Vocalizations of Monkeys: Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney -- Subjects -- Semanticity in the weakest sense -- Semanticity in a stronger sense -- Semanticity in the strongest sense -- Summary -- 11. Cognition and Communication in an African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus): Studies on a Nonhuman, Nonprimate, Nonmammalian Subject: Irene Maxine Pepperberg -- Background -- Experimental design -- Behaviors during training -- Testing procedures -- Results and discussion -- Concluding remarks -- 12. Behavior Control by Exclusion and Attempts at Establishing Semanticity in Marine Mammals Using Match-to-sample Paradigms: Ronald J. Schusterman, Robert Gisiner, Brigit K. Grimm, and Evelyn B. Hanggi -- Control by Exclusion -- A Hypothetical experiment on semantic comprehension: Harbor seal and stimulus equivalence. , General discussion -- 13. Auditory Sequence Complexity and Hemispheric Asymmetry of Function in Rats: Kevin N. O'Connor, Herbert L. Roitblat, and Thomas: G. Bever -- Method -- Results -- Summary and discussion -- 14. Hemispheric Priming as a Technique in the Study of Lateralized Cognitive Processes in Chimpanzees: Some Recent Findings: William D. Hopkins and Robin D. Morris -- Methodological issues -- Statistical issues -- The time course of hemispheric activation -- Summary and conclusion. -- 15. Cognitive Factors Affecting Comprehension of Gesture Language Signs: A Brief Comparison of Dolphins and Humans: Palmer Morrel-Samuels and Louis M. Herman -- Artificial gestural language -- General features of gesture recognition -- Cerebral asymmetry during gesture recognition -- 16. Chimpanzee Competence for Comprehension Video-formatted Task Situation: Duane M. Rumbaugh, William Hopkins, David A. Washburn, and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh -- Perceptions of quantities -- 17. Acquisition of Personal Pronouns by a Chimpanzee: Shoji ltakura and Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- Discrimination of the letters of the alphabet -- Individual recognition -- Description of the subject and the object of action -- Acquisition of personal pronouns -- Discussion and conclusions -- 18. "Language Training" and its Role in the Expression of Tacit Propositional Knowledge by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Roger K. R. Thompson and David L. Oden -- A profound disparity? -- Representational differences between physical and relational matching -- Evidence for tacit if not explicit propositional knowledge in infant chimpanzees -- The chimpanzee infants and their general environment -- Matching training and testing -- Perceptual sensitivity to physical and relational similarities and differences -- Explicit training on relational matching -- What does language training do?. , 19. The Effects of Language on Infonnation Processing and Abstract Concept Learning in Dolphins, Monkeys, and Humans: Melissa R. Shyan and Anthony A. Wright -- Evidence from dolphin and human comparative research -- Evidence from monkey and human comparative research -- Where do we go from here? -- Conclusions -- 20. Representational and Conceptual Skills of Dolphins: Louis M. Herman, Adam A. Pack, and Palmer Morrel-Samuels -- Receptive language competencies -- Behavioral mimicry: Imitating the behavior of a model -- Matching-to-sample -- Conclusions -- 21. A Bottlenosed Dolphin's Responses to Anomalous Sequences Expressed Within an Artificial Gestural Language: Mark D. Holder, Louis M. Herman, and Stanley Kuczaj II -- The use of anomalous sequences in language research -- Akeakamai's language and the construction of anomalous sequences -- Testing responses to anomalous sequences -- Relational anomalies -- Nonrelational anomalies -- Responses to sequences given by a naive signer -- Summary -- 22. Language Leamability in Man, Ape, and Dolphin: E. S. Savage-Rumbaugh -- The strong-L learning view -- Reference and syntax -- Receptive and productive competence -- Critical differences between dolphin and child linguistic experience -- A theory of language acquisition -- Summary -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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