The development of gestural communication in young chimpanzees

The Acquisition of Performatives Prior to Speech.

Elizabeth Bates · Merrill-palmer Quarterly · 1975 · 1.4K citations

Language Studies, Communication, Linguistics +15

Intentional systems in cognitive ethology: The “Panglossian paradigm” defended

Daniel C. Dennett · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1983 · 1K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +16

The communicative context of object manipulation in ape and human adult-infant pairs

Kim A. Bard, Jacques Vauclair · Journal of Human Evolution · 1984 · 118 citations

Social Sciences, Human Development, Psychology +15

Primate Communication.

Sue Taylor Parker, Charles T. Snowdon · Man · 1984 · 97 citations

Metamorphosis and adaptation in the behavior of developing organisms

R Oppenheim · Developmental Psychobiology · 1980 · 53 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology +10