118 Citations
Spontaneous symbol acquisition and communicative use by pygmy chimpanzees (Pan paniscus).
- Psychology, BiologyJournal of experimental psychology. General
- 1986
Two pygmy chimpanzees (Pan paniscus) have spontaneously begun to use symbols to communicate with people and have begun to comprehend spoken English words and can readily identify lexigrams upon hearing the spoken words.
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman Species
- Biology, Psychology
- 2015
A brief overview of its history is provided and current trends and future avenues are pinpointed, to get a better insight in this intriguing scientific field.
Observational word learning in two bonobos (Pan paniscus): ostensive and non-ostensive contexts
- Psychology
- 2000
Gestures of apes and pre-linguistic human children: Similar or different?
- Psychology
- 2008
The majority of studies on animal communication provide evidence that gestural signalling plays an important role in the communication of non-human primates and resembles that of pre-linguistic and…
Distal Communication by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Evidence for Common Ground?
- PsychologyChild development
- 2015
This study exposed 166 chimpanzees to food and an experimenter, at an angular displacement, to ask, "Do chimpanzees display distal communication?", and found that apes do communicate distally.
Observational learning of tool-use by young chimpanzees
- Psychology, Education
- 1987
These findings complement naturalistic observations in suggesting that chimpanzee tool-use is in some sense «culturally transmitted» — though perhaps not in the same sense as social-conventional behaviors for which precise copying of conspecifics is crucial.
Artificial Language Comprehension in Dolphins and Sea Lions: The Essential Cognitive Skills
- Computer Science
- 1988
It is concluded that both dolphins and sea lions can be taught to comprehend sentence-like instructions, and the simplified language learned by these marine mammals depends on the following learned cognitive skills.
From Animal Communication to Linguistics and Back : Insight from Combinatorial Abilities in Monkeys and Birds
- Biology
- 2018
Here, a twostep approach is adopted in order to discuss: what forms sound combination takes in animals, based on structural and functional criteria and when it may or not be appropriate to use linguistic terms; why sound combination may have evolved in some species more than others.
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Early Signs of Language in Child and Chimpanzee
- PsychologyScience
- 1975
Early results indicate that the new conditions are significantly superior to the conditions of Project Washoe, and more valid comparisons can now be made between the acquisition of language by children and by chimpanzees.
Ape Language: From Conditioned Response to Symbol
- Psychology
- 1986
In this pioneering study, the author traces the acquisition of symbols by two chimpanzees, from their simplest beginnings to their use as representational statements about future actions. The…
Can an ape create a sentence?
- PsychologyScience
- 1979
More than 19,000 multisign utterances of an infant chimpanzee (Nim) were analyzed for syntactic and semantic regularities, showing similar non-human patterns of discourse.
Verbal behavior at a procedural level in the chimpanzee.
- PsychologyJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior
- 1984
It is concluded that the behavior-analytic framework, and the procedures devised to produce language skills in apes, provide strong support for several of the major positions set forth in Skinner's (1957) Verbal Behavior.
Transfer of signed responses in American Sign Language from vocal English stimuli to physical object stimuli by a chimpanzee (Pan)
- Psychology
- 1976
Social behavior of wild pygmy chimpanzees (Pan paniscus) of Wamba: A preliminary report☆
- Psychology, Biology
- 1980
The Locomotor Behavior of Pan paniscus in the Lomako Forest
- Biology
- 1984
In spite of the importance of locomotion in the homidid career, relatively little is known of the locomotion of free-ranging primates, particelarly the great apes.
Symbolic Communication Between Two Pigeons, (Columba livia domestica)
- Psychology, BiologyScience
- 1980
Through the use of learned symbols, a pigeon accurately communicated information about hidden colors to another pigeon that engaged in a sustained and natural conversation without human intervention.