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Chimps, Chumps, and Language

Researchers Primate Style

1) Hayes' Chimp Speech

2) Kellogg's' Chimp Speech

3) Gardners' Washoe AmSign Lan

4) Terrace Nim Chimpsky AmSignLan

5) Premack Sarah Plastic Symbs

6) Savage- Kanzi Lexigram bd

Rumbaugh 13000 words

20000combinations

Yerkes primate center: attends language classes with mother, Lana, and exhibits extraordinary observation and generative language. Kanzi's performance provides the best evidence available so far that a nonhuman not only can learn a substantial vocabulary but also can learn to form word combinations characterized by grammar.