02587cam a22003612u 4500001000800000005001700008007001400025008004100039035002000080037001900100040002700119091000800146100002300154245007700177260006800254300001000322520132600332533008101658650003501739650002801774650004401802650002201846650003001868650002401898650003301922650003601955650002101991650002402012650003302036655003602069856007802105984004202183529709620110612031248.0he u||024||||080220s1975 xxu ||| b ||| s eng d 9(ericd)ED117979 aED117979bERIC aericdbengcericddMvI amfm1 aStokoe, William C.10aSigning Apes and Evolving Linguisticsh[microform] /cWilliam C. Stokoe. a[Washington, D.C.] :bDistributed by ERIC Clearinghouse,c1975. a13 p. aLinguistics retains from its antecedents, philology and the study of sacred writings, some of their apologetic and theological bias. Thus it has not been able to face squarely the question how linguistic function may have evolved from animal communication. Chimpanzees' use of signs from American Sign Language forces re-examination of language origins and the evolution of progressively more highly encoded communicative systems. Linguistics has contributed to ignorance about sign languages when it has accepted an evolutionary view of human vocal and auditory organs but has called on a creation myth to account for speech and language. Not all linguists are so dualistic. Hewes, Kendon, Kavanagh, Liberman, Sarles, Wescott, and others have attempted to look at language as brain function with both limbic and vocal involvement, in recent meetings of the American Anthropological Association, the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnographical Sciences, conferences of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the New York Academy of Sciences. A promising lead which may be empirically testable is that the gestural signal and not the all-at-once vocal signal (as in bird song) used by bipedal primates first divided into partials with nominal and verbal referents. (Author) aMicrofiche.b[Washington D.C.]:cERIC Clearinghouseemicrofiches : positive.17aAmerican Sign Language.2ericd17aAnimal Behavior.2ericd17aCommunication (Thought Transfer)2ericd07aEvolution.2ericd07aLanguage Patterns.2ericd17aLinguistics.2ericd07aManual Communication.2ericd07aNonverbal Communication.2ericd17aPrimates.2ericd07aPrimatology.2ericd07aVerbal Communication.2ericd 7aSpeeches/Meeting Papers.2ericd41uhttp://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED117979 aANLcmc 2253 ED117979d77000000130401