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Peer reviewedPepperberg, Irene M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
An African gray parrot, taught to employ the vocalization "want" before an object label so as to discriminate functional labeling from requesting, subsequently generalized "want" to novel situations. The findings of the study indicate that the training procedure might be applicable to intervention programs for humans with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Correlation
