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The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
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New York, USA (Metapsychology): Among the features discussed in this section, the topic of communication and language stands up. Gazzaniga refers to the work of R.Provine and explains how bipedalism probably made speech mechanism possible. He also reviews many experimental attempts to teach chimps, bonobos and gorillas to communicate using language (roughly, symbols and grammar). He puts forward some serious methodological problems underlying those experiments: How to define language is right on the top of the list but also problems of interpreting animal behavior. On Gazzaniga's reading those attempts had rather disappointing results and suggest that only humans can enjoy in full-blown linguistic activity.
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