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ERIC Number: EJ465954
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-976X
Language Comprehension in Ape and Child.
Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue; And Others
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, v58 n3-4 p1-221 1993
A two-year-old child and an eight-year-old bonobo exposed to spoken English and lexigrams from infancy were asked to respond to novel sentences. Both subjects comprehended novel requests and simple syntactic devices. The bonobo decoded the syntactic device of word recursion more accurately than the child; the child performed better than the bonobo on the conjunctive device. (BC)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evolution, Expressive Language, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Skills, Listening Comprehension, Receptive Language, Sentences, Syntax, Word Order
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Apes
Note: Serial No. 233.