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Publication details [#39053]

Patterson, Francine, Joanne Tanner and Nancy Mayer. 1988. Pragmatic analysis of gorilla utterances : Early communicative development in the gorilla Koko. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (1) : 35–54.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

animal communication | pragmatic function | sign language

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses the development of American Sign Language in an infant lowland gorilla 'Koko', and it's use of a range of different pragmatic functions for one sign.