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Premack, David – Science, 1971
Describes procedures used to study abilities of chimpanzees to be taught written language. Words, sentences, questions, metalinguistics, class concepts, the copula, some quantifiers and if-then logical connections are investigated. Success seems attributable largely to non-linguistic cues. (JM)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research