?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=%E2%80%98Putting+apes+(body+and+language)+together+again%E2%80%99%2C+a+review+article+of+Savage-Rumbaugh%2C+S.%2C+Taylor%2C+T.+J.%2C+and+Shanker%2C+S.+G.+Apes%2C+Language%2C+and+the+Human+Mind+(Oxford%3A+1999)+and+Clark%2C+A.+Being+There%3A+Putting+Brain%2C+Body%2C+and+World+Together+Again+(MIT%3A+1997)&rft.creator=Cowley%2C+Stephen&rft.creator=Spurrett%2C+David&rft.subject=Animal+Cognition&rft.subject=Primatology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=It+is+argued+that+the+account+of+Savage-Rumbaugh%E2%80%99s+ape+language+research+in+Savage-Rumbaugh%2C+Shanker+and+Taylor+(1998.+Apes%2C+Language+and+the+Human+Mind.+Oxford+University%0APress%2C+Oxford)+is+pro%EF%AC%81tably+read+in+the+terms+of+the+theoretical+perspective+developed+in+Clark+(1997.+Being+There%2C+Putting+Brain%2C+Body+and+World+Together+Again.+MIT+Press%2C+Cambridge%2C+MA).+The+former+work+details+some+striking+results+concerning+chimpanzee+and+bonobo+subjects%2C+trained+to+make+use+of+keyboards+containing+%E2%80%98lexigram%E2%80%99+symbols.+The+authors%2C+though%2C+make+heavy+going+of+a+critique+of+what+they+take+to+be+standard+approaches%0Ato+understanding+language+and+cognition+in+animals%2C+and+fail+to+offer+a+worthwhile+theoretical+position+from+which+to+make+sense+of+their+own+data.+It+is+suggested+that+the+achievements+of+Savage-Rumbaugh%E2%80%99s+non-human+subjects+suggest+that+language+ability+need+not+be+explained%0Aby+reference+to+specialised+brain+capacities.+The+contribution+made+by+Clark%E2%80%99s+work+is+to+show+the+range+of+ways+in+which+cognition+exploits+bodily+and+environmental+resources.+This+model+of+%E2%80%98distributed%E2%80%99+cognition+helps+makes+sense+of+the+lexigram+activity+of+Savage-Rumbaugh%E2%80%99s%0Asubjects%2C+and+points+to+a+re-evaluation+of+the+language+behaviour+of+humans.%0A&rft.publisher=Elsevier&rft.date=2003&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3378%2F1%2FApes_archive.pdf&rft.identifier=++Cowley%2C+Stephen+and+Spurrett%2C+David++(2003)+%E2%80%98Putting+apes+(body+and+language)+together+again%E2%80%99%2C+a+review+article+of+Savage-Rumbaugh%2C+S.%2C+Taylor%2C+T.+J.%2C+and+Shanker%2C+S.+G.+Apes%2C+Language%2C+and+the+Human+Mind+(Oxford%3A+1999)+and+Clark%2C+A.+Being+There%3A+Putting+Brain%2C+Body%2C+and+World+Together+Again+(MIT%3A+1997).++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3378%2F