File 14 - "Biological Foundations for Language, July 1969"

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JCPP/Bronowski/Bronowski/5/1/14/14

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"Biological Foundations for Language, July 1969"

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  • 1960-July 1969 (Creation)

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2 files (2 parts)

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Comprises a programme for a conference at the Salk Institute with conference papers by Roman Jakobson ('The Fundamental and Specific Characteristics of Human Language'), Karl H Pribham, Stanford University ('Brain and Language'), Peter Carlton Reynolds, Stanford University ('Possible Preadaptations for Language in the Behavior of Monkeys and Apes'), Ursula Bellugi-Klima ('The Capacity for Language'), and Bronowski ('The Biological Foundations of Language').

Also includes papers [possibly given at an earlier conference or used for background research] on: 'Teaching Sign Language to a Chimpanzee' (R Allen Gardner and Beatrice T Gardner, University of Nevada, Reno, 15 Jul 1968); 'The Study of Human Evolution' (Washburn, 1968); 'Primate Communication Systems and the Emergence of Human Language' (Lancaster, 1968); 'Disconnexion syndromes in Animals and Man' (Norman Geschwind); 'Explaining Linguistic Universals' (David McNeill, Harvard University, Apr 1969); 'A Review of theory in Physiological Psychology' (Karl H Pribham, Stanford University, 1960); 'Language, Name and Concept' (Bronowski and Ursula Bellugi-Klima, Jun 1969); and 'The Human Revolution' (Charles F Hockett and Robert Ascher, 1964).

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      This file was originally in a ring binder.

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      Binder 138

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