Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOOK WHO'S TALKING! by Emily Hahn...
...48th book, Emily Hahn surveys the evidence leading to this question and cautiously alights on the side of the monkeys. It is something of a miracle that in Look Who's Talking! she does not end up talking to herself. For the controversial subject of communication between humans and animals can be one long semantic rabbit hole down which any curious Alice can easily lose her orientation. Definitions of language differ among physiologists, behaviorists, linguists and philosophers, with the gloomy Ludwig Wittgenstein once suggesting that even if a lion could talk, we would not understand it. Sapient quadrupeds...
...Hahn keeps her professional distance and differentiates between communication that is characterized by animal instinct and communication that is conceptual and learned from humans. A parrot that asks for a cracker is only mimicking a human or another parrot. But a chimpanzee who can "speak" in Ameslan (American sign language) or Yerkish by striking combinations on a keyboard of color-coded symbols seems to be creating syntax, a property of human language. It is not the voice but the process that is critical...
...Ruffing, Joe Black, Vida Blue, Bob by Brown. Work has begun on an all-rhyming team. So far, compilers have not been able to go beyond Don Hahn, Ed Head and Matt Batts...
...think I'm going to catch pneumonia sitting in this ankle-deep water," Richard F. Hahn '78 said in his Winthrop House room yesterday...