Apes And Language

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Literature

 

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Jessica G

 

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December 6, 2014

 

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University

 

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Researchers agree that the apes have acquired fairly large vocabularies in American Sign Language and in artificial languages but they have drawn quite different conclusions in addressing the following questions: 1. How spontaneously have apes used language? 2. How creatively have apes used language? 3...
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How creatively have apes used language? 3. Can apes create sentences? 4. What are the implications of the ape language studies? This review of the literature on apes and language focuses on these four questions. How Spontaneously Have Apes Used Language? In an influential article Terrace, Petitto, Sanders, and Bever (1979) argued that the apes in language experiments were not using language spontaneously, but were merely imitating their trainers, responding to conscious or unconscious cues...
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