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HCHenry

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What success did Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh have in teaching sign language to the bonobo chimpanzee Kanzi?
 
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What is the importance of a speech community for a human child?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

She taught him a vocabulary of about 150 signs which he then arranged into appropriate sentences. Although Kanzi has responded appropriately to more than 500 spoken English sentences, even Dr. Rumbaugh agrees that he uses the words more like tools than symbols.

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Children learn the language of their speech community. This needs to occur before the age of 6 (for a first language) in order for the child to develop normal language capacities.


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