Herbert S. Terrace revisits his 1970s experiment to teach a chimpanzee language, Project Nim, to offer a novel view of the origins of human language. In contrast to both Noam Chomsky and his critics, Terrace contends that words, as much as grammar, are the cornerstones of language.
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1 released bookLeonard Hastings Schoff Lectures is a 3-book series first released in 1996 with contributions by Saskia Sassen, Robert L. Belknap, and Herbert S. Terrace.
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