Nim Chimpsky
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Nim Chimpsky
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Neam "Nim" Chimpsky was a chimpanzee and the subject of an extended study of animal language acquisition at Columbia University. The project was led by Herbert S. Terrace with the linguistic analysis headed up by psycholinguist Thomas Bever. Within the context of a scientific study, Chimpsky was named as a pun on linguist Noam Chomsky, who posits that humans are "wired" to develop language. As part of a study intended to challenge Chomsky's thesis that only humans have language, beginning at two
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Chimpanzee research subject
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_Chimpsky
date created:
2003-01-10T15:43:15Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T11:14:22Z
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