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Language comprehension in ape and child.

Comparisons of the language comprehension skills of a 2-year-old child and an 8 year-old bonobo who was raised in a language environment similar to that in which children are raised but specifically modified to be appropriate for an ape suggest that the potential for language comprehension preceded the appearance of speech by several million years at minimum.

Language, Communication, Chimpanzees

Following the repeated failures registered between 1930 and 1950 in attempting to set up phonic communication with an ape, Allen and Beatrice Gardner (1969, 1970, 1971) undertook, from 1967 on, to

Language, name, and concept.

The experiment of teaching a young chimpanzee to use American sign language is an important advance on previous attempts to test the linguistic potential of primates, and offers evidence of a new kind.

A PROJECT FOR AUTOMATIC SENTENCE ANALYSIS

An experimental investigation on automatic English sentence analysis to use syntactic correlation procedure to isolate semantic factors for the analysis or interpretation of the meaning of English sentences, and employ these semantic factors in the correlation procedure in order to reduce the output of semantically unacceptable sentence analysis.