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Review
. 2017 Feb;24(1):181-185.
doi: 10.3758/s13423-016-1101-y.

Animal language studies: What happened?

Irene M Pepperberg  1
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Review

Animal language studies: What happened?

Irene M Pepperberg. Psychon Bull Rev. 2017 Feb.

Abstract

The extent to which nonhuman animals can learn actual human language is a controversial question, but many nonhuman species have acquired elements of a two-way communication system that is, and was, sophisticated enough to enable its use in evaluating cognitive capacities. This article is a personal view of the history of these animal language studies.

Keywords: Animal cognition; Animal language studies; Interspecies communication; Language evolution.

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