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Home / Science / Social Sciences / Anthropology / Linguistic Anthropology / Ape Sign Language
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- A Voice for Koko the Gorilla - Koko the gorilla had a computer system that enabled her to 'talk' by pressing symbols. This page discusses the program and its development.
www.kiva.net/~larryy/KokoLingo.html
- An Internet Chat with Koko the Gorilla - Read the transcript of the chat which took place on April 27th, 1998. This event was the first ever live inter-species Internet chat.
www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4451/KokoLiveChat.html
- Are Nonhuman Species Capable of Language Acquisition? - A discussion of the value and validity of ape language research.
www.ozemail.com.au/~ilanit/koko.htm
- Chimpanzee and Great Ape Language Resources - Includes links, online texts, and ape images. At the Anthropology Department, Brown University
www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/apelang.html
- Chimpanzee Communication & Language-related Areas of the Brain - A report from the National Science Foundation discussing research into chimpanzee brain physiology and areas of the brain associated with language in humans.
www.nsf.gov/sbe/nuggets/021/nugget.htm
- Koko the Gorilla - The Gorilla Foundation brings interspecies communication to the public through Koko, famous for her sign language skills.
www.koko.org
- Language in Apes: How Much Do They Know and How Much Should We Teach Them - Introductory overview of ape language research, its history and its practice.
www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dmswitze/apelang.html
- Language in Child and Chimp? - General commentary on ape language with transcripts of chats with apes and interviews with ape language researchers.
pubpages.unh.edu/~jel/apelang.html
- Language Research Center - Primate research center studying language acquisition through work with bonobos and chimpanzees. Features a list of publications and ape biographies.
www.gsu.edu/~wwwlrc
- Non-Human Primates and Language - This project is part of a theoretical course on Syntax and Grammatical Theories taught by Prof. Dirk Geeraerts at K.U.Leuven.
www.angelfire.com/sc2/nhplanguage
- Primate Language - Sue and Duane Rumbaugh argue the documentation of elementary language competence in species other than humans has significant implications for the understanding of the brain. Article includes a history of ape sign language research.
cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Articles/savagerumbaugh.html
- Primate Research Institute: Section of Language and Intelligence - Chimpanzee language research projects at Kyoto University. News, pictures and biographies of chimpanzee subjects as well as researchers.
www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/koudou-shinkei/shikou/index.html
- Primate Use of Language - Lauren Kosseff suggests the acquisition of some aspects of language in primates may shed light on the development of language in early humans.
www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/language.htm
- Roger & Deborah Fouts: The Washoe Project - A pioneering language project with female chimpanzee Washoe.
www.animalnews.com/fouts/index.htm
- Talking With Chimps - An article that describes why some researchers feel that chimps may be able to learn language.
www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4451/TalkWithChimps.html
- The Case Against the Animal Mind - A article by Clive Wynne that argues evidence from the ape sign language studies demonstrates that our closest animal relatives do not have consciousness.
www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1175/6_32/56883557/print.jhtml
- The Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute - This institute at Central Washington University cares for five chimpanzees who are being taught American Sign Language.
www.cwu.edu/~cwuchci
- The Primatech Project - A cognitive model of Chantek, a signing orangutan, for an installation at Zoo Atlanta.
www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/perception/projects/primatech
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