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Two mathematically defined expressive language structures in humans and chimpanzees.

A study was conducted to determine whether three apes, in their spontaneous choice of lexigrams for communication, indicate the existence of two mathematically identified, expressive language structures recently discovered in human word usage. Two distinctive and unrelated measures of word usage—on...

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Published in:Behavioral Science Vol. 41; pp. 124 - 136
Main Authors: Langs, Robert, Badalamenti, Anthony F., Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue
Format: Article
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. April 1996
Subjects:
Psycholinguistics
Communication & psychology
Psychology, Comparative
Animal communication
Chimpanzee behavior
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost