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The theory of semiotics outlined in this chapter is drawn from several works on semiotics, including T. Sebeok’s Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs, Studies in Semiotics 5 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976), I think I Am a Verb (: Plenum Press, 1986), and U. Eco’s Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984). Bee is drawn from K. von Frisch’s “Dialects in the Language of the Bees” in Scientific American 202(2): 78–87 (1962) and his work The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees, translated by C.E. Chadwick (Cambridge: Press, 1967). is based largely on W.H. Thorpe’s Bird-Song (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961). Jake Page’s is reported in Science (1982). The information on the parrot is drawn from the Web site devoted to Irene Pepperberg’s research on African Grey , accessed at http://www.alexfoundation.org. Lemur vocalizations in Table 1 are drawn from A. Jolley’s Lemur Behavior (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966). Vervet communication is drawn from R.M. Seyfarth and D.L. Cheney’s “How Monkeys See the World,” in Primate Communication, edited by C.T. Snowden, C.H. Brown, and M.R. Petersen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982). Creative signing by Koko is reported in F. Patterson and E. Linden’s work The Education of Koko (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981). The reference to cultural transmission of signs among chimpanzees is drawn from Michael Tomasello’s “Cultural Transmission in the Tool Use and Communicatory Signaling of Chimpanzees?” in “Language” and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes: Comparative Development Perspectives, edited by Sue Taylor Parker and Kathleen Rita Gibson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 274– 311; some of the material on invented rules by the pygmy chimpanzee Kanzi is drawn from Patricia Marks Greenfield and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh’s “Grammatical Combination in Pan paniscus,” also in Parker and Gibson, pp. 540– 576; this volume contains a number of other articles relevant to the question of nonhuman primate cognitive and linguistic abilities. The recent study on chimpanzee communication cited in Section 5.4 is from H. Notman, The Meaning, Structure and Function of Chimpanzee Pant Hoots from the Budongo Forest, Uganda (PhD thesis, University of Calgary, 2002). Dr. Notman also provided much information on primate communication in the wild. The article summarized in Section 6.5 is “The Faculty of Language: Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve?” by Marc Hauser, Noam Chomsky, and W. Tecumseh Fitch, Science 298 (22 Nov 2002): 1569-1579. Some question material is drawn from various Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction, 5th edition, Chapter 17: Sources, 2

articles in How Animals Communicate, edited by Thomas A. Sebeok (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977).