Teaching Animals Language Flashcards
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Washoe - Gardener and Gardener, 1969)
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Surrounded by non-native ASL signers Repertoire of 100 signs (1000s in children) Limited creativity “go sweet” Semanticity & displacement fulfilled Taught younger chimp
No fixed word order
Signs iconic
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Nim Chimpsky - 1973-1977
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20,000 utterances
1,378 different, mainly 2-word
No function words 12% spontaneous 54% imitation Egocentric No syntax No novel utterances
3
Q
Koko - 1970s
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1,000 signs
Understood 2,000 English words
4
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Lana
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Pointing to over 100 symbols Semanticity Creativity Displacement Ordered but not structure dependant
5
Q
Kanzi
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Visual symbols on keyboard
80% spontaneous, multi-symbol utterances
74% comprehension
Action before object word order
