Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can
(Part of the Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures Series)
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In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named "Nim Chimpsky" in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language. Initially, Terrace thought that Nim could create sentences but later discovered that Nim's teachers inadvertently cued his signing...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231171102
ISBN13:9780231171106
Release Date:October 2019
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"
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