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I'm doing this for a project. Anyone care to help??

2007-02-20 15:07:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Homework Help

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The most famous gorilla was named Koko and she was taught ASL by Dr. Penny Patterson (?) Just go to Google and type in Koko learning ASL, and you'll get a bunch of sites. On the PBS site you can even watch a short video. Have fun

2007-02-20 18:42:34 · answer #1 · answered by Just Me 5 · 0 0

Went to google 4U and entered "HOW a chimpanzee (or gorilla) is taught ASL" as U ask. with 289 web sites, Ex:

[BOOK] Nim/a Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language - group of 2 »
HS Terrace - 1987 - books.google.com
... My immediate objective was to write about Nim's mastery of ASL in a ... In other words,
if a chimpanzee can learn it, it isn't language. The languages taught to ...
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[DOC] Introduction: Linguistics, Language and the Brain
C Hamann - staff.uni-oldenburg.de
... who learned sign language, was deliberately taught the signs ... A gorilla named Koko
is reported to have ... experiment was made with a chimpanzee called Nim Chimsky. ...
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Is there something like language in the animal kingdom?
P Madl - sbg.ac.at
... They were taught to comprehend and respond to symbol ... Sarah, the chimpanzee under
trial performed correctly on 77 ... as a water bird, and Koko, a gorilla trained by ...
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Sign Acquisition in a Home-RearedlFree-Ranging Orangutan: Comparisons With Other Signing Apes
G Lshapiro - American Journal of Yrimatology, 1982 - doi.wiley.com
... for Princess and could explain why the nontouch signs she was taught were acquired ...
signs in a similar manner to that of a chimpanzee and a gorilla, both in ...
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CurrsmtCmmments”
E GARFIELD - Current Contents, 1985 - garfield.library.upenn.edu
... apes, including the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan. In the earliest project,
researchers taught a chimpanzee to use American Sign Language (ASL), a ges ...
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Can animals think - group of 3 »
E Linden - Time, 1993 - des.emory.edu
... The 12-year-old pygmy chimpanzee lives with a colony of other apes in a cage complex
on the wooded ... Take the case of the gorilla Koko, first taught 20 years ...
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Symbolic and Syntactic Capacities [and Discussion]
RW Brown, L Zuckerman - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. …, 1981 - JSTOR
... as opposed to symbol stringing because all of them were taught a kind of ... Symbolic
capacity It is perfectly clear that the chimpanzee and gorilla are able ...
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Animal Cognition: Thinking without Language
HS Terrace - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. …, 1985 - JSTOR
... M & M. Subsequently, Patterson (1978) reported that Koko, a young female gorilla
she taught to use ... of two or more signs made by a young chimpanzee (Nim) who ...
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Atheos 1 Zeo Atheos 6/21/2005 An Atheist Perspective on Love The traditional definition of love is a …
Z Atheos - infidelguy.com
... male baboon, mountain gorilla and earlier hominid species. ... however, psychologists
Beatrice and Allen Gardner taught American ... ASL) to a female chimp named Washoe ...
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Handedness in great apes: A review of findings - group of 2 »
WD Hopkins, RD Morris - International Journal of Primatology, 1993 - Springer
... No significant population asymmetry in males Obs Twelve subjects, 6 of which were
Exp taught ASL were tested on ... Gorilla 21 13 3 Gorilla 3 2 2 Chimpanzee 1 0 ...
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U may want to adjust words to better clarify your Q...

Good LUCK w/PROJECT!!!
EOC

2007-02-28 03:51:36 · answer #2 · answered by ***BEEN THERE, DONE THAT!!!*** 4 · 0 0

just type in those key words into any search box and you will most likely find a couple of articles

2007-02-27 17:33:54 · answer #3 · answered by Emily M 2 · 0 0

Here's one from my hometown! :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washoe_(chimpanzee)

Here's some more

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/language/chimpanzee.html

http://www.janegoodall.org/chimp_central/chimpanzees/similarities/default.asp

2007-02-23 11:21:04 · answer #4 · answered by funibair 5 · 0 0

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