A computer-controlled language training system for investigating the language skills of young apes |
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Authors: | Duane M. Rumbaugh Timothy V. Gill Josephine V. Brown E. C. von Glasersfeld Pier Pisani Harold Warner C. L. Bell |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, 33 Gilmer Street, S.E., 30303, Atlanta, Georgia 2. University of Georgia, 30601, Athens, Georgia 3. Yerkes Primate Research Center of Emory University, 30322, Atlanta, Georgia
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Abstract: | A computer-controlled language training system was designed and constructed to enhance the objectivity and efficiency of inquiry into the language-relevant behaviors of apes. The system allows the S to gain control over the events of the 24-h day in direct correspondence with its competence in using a keyboard on which each key represents a word. Various incentives can be obtained through the selection and depression of appropriate keys in accordance with rules of sentence structure monitored by a computer. The system is flexible and allows for eventual conversation between man and ape, with the computer as the intermediary. A Teletype records all that transpires. Achievements of the chimpanzee S over the course of the first 8 months of the system’s operation attest to the worth of the system and training methods. |
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