Introduction 1
1 The great automatic grammatizator 6
2 Animals that try to talk 23
3 Grandmama's teeth 47
4 Predestinate grooves 66
5 A blueprint in the brain? 91
6 Chattering children 110
7 Puzzling it out 135
8 Celestial unintelligibility 165
9 The white elephant problem 183
10 The case of the missing fingerprint 199
11 The Cheshire Cat's grin 237
12 Banker's clerk or hippopotamus? 260
Suggestions for further reading 266
References 272
Index 297
文库索引 309