出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：It has being an ancient desire to ask apes what their natural lives are. De la Mettrie was the first to propose, in the 18 th C., that the sign language of deaf adults could be used with them since they do not speak. We enhance here some of the pioneering projects of the two strategies for this endeavor: the use of ASL and the utilization of lexigrams and computers. Besides the ancient communicative quest with them, the evolutionist’s perspective has seen in these studies a way to find out how the natural language (NL) emerged in hominids. If it is clear that apes do no possess totally the NL, the linguistic turn in primatology has left way, as in philosophy, to more complex field and laboratory cognitive studies of less anthropocentric nature.
关键词：Natural language;simian language;lexigrams;Washoe;Premack;Rumbaugh;Lenguaje natural;lenguaje en simios;lexigramas;Washoe;Premack;Rumbaugh
