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	Chimpanzee communications and the evolution of human language
		Expecting other great apes to possess some form of these capabilities, he argues, is as absurd as expecting the guinea pig-like hyrax, the elephant's closest living relative, to possess a primitive form of the elephant's trunk.
		Whether this ape used the left hemisphere of the neocortex for communications, however, is not clear, as the question of which areas of the brain great apes use for communication has not been extensively studied.
		Language consists of discrete words, while human calls fall along a continuum that stretches from laughter to giggling to snorts to cries to sobs.
	www.gps.caltech.edu /~rkopp/collegepapers/chimps.html (3032 words)

	Saving Dolphins
		Sue Savage-Rumbaugh wrote in her book, Ape Language, that chimpanzees show at most a fleeting interest in television, and that from their behavior it was not possible to infer that they were seeing anything more than changing patterns or forms.
		Her own language -trained chimpanzee subjects, Sherman and Austin, only learned to attend to and interpret television scenes after months of exposure in the presence of human companions who reacted to the scenes by exclaiming or vocalizing at appropriate times.
		The results of the language comprehension work with the bonobo chimpanzee and the dolphin Akeakamai show many similarities, especially in the receptivity of the animals to the language formats used and in their proficiency at responding to sequences of symbols.
	www.savingdolphins.org /languagelearning.php (3569 words)

	New insight into Kanzi and how a great ape acquired language
		“Language is a spontaneous companion to how one tangibly lives and serves as a reflection of the ideational system that emerges as an aspect of cultural ontogeny and development.
		When completed, Great Ape Trust will be the largest great ape facility in North America and one of the first worldwide to include all four types of great ape – bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans – for noninvasive interdisciplinary studies of their cognitive and communicative capabilities.
		Great Ape Trust is dedicated to providing sanctuary and an honorable life for great apes, studying the intelligence of great apes, advancing conservation of great apes and providing unique educational experiences about great apes.
	www.greatapetrust.org /media/releases/2005/nr_56a05.php (864 words)

	Noble Ape: 29 June 2007
		The Noble Ape Simulation has been in development for more than a decade.
		It features a number of autonomous simulation components including a landscape simulation, biological simulation, weather simulation, sentient creature (Noble Ape) simulation and a simple intelligent-agent scripting language (ApeScript).
		The landscape (physics) and weather simulations are autonomous components of the Noble Ape Simulation too.
	www.nobleape.com (236 words)

	Proto-World and the Language Organ
		The sci.lang FAQ answers the question "How did language originate?" with a pithy "Nobody knows." There is a wealth of experience in these two words; linguists have learned that where there are few facts to go on, one ends up with much specious speculation and no serious science.
		One argument for the language organ, for instance, is the poverty of stimulus argument-- that the language available to children is too little in quantity and too suspect in quality to serve to construct a grammar.
		But many immigrants don’t really have to learn the national language-- the required level of national language competence in their work is often minimal, and they may live in an enclave (a family or a neighborhood) where it is not needed at all.
	www.zompist.com /langorg.htm (5649 words)

	Great Ape Trust of Iowa
		Great Ape Trust is a scientific research center in Des Moines dedicated to the study of the origins and future of culture, language, tools and intelligence.
		Great Ape Trust of Iowa visiting scientist Dr. Serge Wich is headed for the island of Sumatra in Indonesia for a 3 1/2-week study to more closely measure the orangutan population in a 700,000-hectare forest in Aceh, Sumatraâs northern-most province.
		Two researchers from Great Ape Trust were among a field of distinguished scientists lecturing at The Mind of the Chimpanzee conference, an international multidisciplinary symposium on chimpanzee cognition and conservation that concluded earlier this week in Chicago.
	greatapetrust.org /feed.rss (4397 words)

	Language in child and chimp?
		What are the descriptive facts of human language acquisition by humans.
		One of the remarkable facts of human language acquisition, is that it is very uniform across a wide range of children and experiences.
		Finally what we can begin to speculate on what kind of genetic changes might have occurred to evolve language in concert with evolving culture.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~jel/apelang.html (245 words)

	Primate's World. Conservation, Behavior, and Language.
		Human DNA is 98.4 percent identical to the DNA of chimps and bonobos, a lesser-known chimp-like ape.
		Humans are "left brained" -- the planum temporale that controls language is much larger on the left.
		They should to know, for example, that primates have been taught language in captivity, that primates have thoughts and emotions just like humans (the kinship is more than genetic).
	www.primatesworld.com (884 words)

	Cognitive Science Summaries, edited by Jim Davies
		In "Language" and intelligence in monkeys and apes by Parker, S. and K. Gibson (Eds) 1990.
		Miles, L. Harper (1994) "Ape language" studies and the study of human language origins.
		Worden, R. The evolution of language from social intelligence.
	www-static.cc.gatech.edu /~jimmyd/summaries/index.html (3887 words)

	Resource site for everything to do with Article Child Development In Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Study of maintenance and loss of bilingual language skills amongst Mexican-descent children in the...
		General commentary on ape language with transcripts of chats with apes and interviews with ape language...
		This paper outlines the historical evolution of the recent language policy in Papua New Guinea, and...
	childdevelopment.resourceaid.com /articlechilddevelopmentinlanguage (800 words)

	Language of Great Apes, Great Ape Trust, Des Moines, Iowa
		One of the methods in which researchers at Great Ape Trust will communicate with bonobos is through the use of lexigram boards.
		The development of computer-monitored lexigram keyboards was a key component to studies conducted at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
		Similar keyboards have helped children and adults with language deficits.
	www.greatapetrust.org /bonobo/language/index.php (233 words)

	RickyDawkins's Participation » Propeller
		Then, about 80,000 years ago, the species acquired an edge: modern behaviour in the form of advanced tool use, and probably social interaction and language.
		With its modern anatomy and behaviour, Homo sapiens spread across the globe and supplanted the other hominids around at the time.
		"To simplify, you have Tibeto-Burman languages to the north and east, and Indo-European-type languages to the south and west," says Dr Tyler-Smith.
	www.netscape.com /member/rickydawkins (2449 words)

	Research center, Great Ape Trust, Des Moines, Iowa
		The science of Great Ape Trust seeks to understand the origins and future of culture, language, tool use and intelligence.
		Over the last several years, a few courageous and brilliant scientists have devoted their lives to learning everything they can about the great apes.
		We are fortunate to have many of those researchers associated with Great Ape Trust.
	greatapetrust.org /research (146 words)

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