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Peer reviewedLieberman, Philip; And Others – American Anthropologist, 1972
Work supported in part by four U.S. Public Health Service grants. (VM)
Descriptors: Adults, Anatomy, Auditory Perception, Children
Direct linkNewport, Elissa L.; Hauser, Marc D.; Spaepen, Geertrui; Aslin, Richard N. – Cognitive Psychology, 2004
In earlier work we have shown that adults, infants, and cotton-top tamarin monkeys are capable of computing the probability with which syllables occur in particular orders in rapidly presented streams of human speech, and of using these probabilities to group adjacent syllables into word-like units. We have also investigated adults' learning of…
Descriptors: Learning, Primatology, Animal Behavior, Probability
Peng, Fred C. C., Ed. – 1978
A collection of research materials on sign language and primatology is presented here. The essays attempt to show that: sign language is a legitimate language that can be learned not only by humans but by nonhuman primates as well, and nonhuman primates have the capability to acquire a human language using a different mode. The following…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Anthropology, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
