Knowing language, it's all too easy for us to attribute language to animals who were trained to use symbols. Yet, in every example, linguistic knowledge is not needed to explain their behavior. Chimpanzees can't learn language.
https://t.co/nJgAFFPuYN
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The results of studies I conducted showed that chimpanzees only used signs and symbols to function as imperatives for a reward. If that were the only function of words that humans learned, we couldn't learn language. https://t.co/ymoAeIe2dq
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