[lbo-talk] More on Kenneally

[ravi]

On Jul 15, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Andy wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Chris Doss<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Then it occured to me that it is not actually necessary to belong  
>> to a species that is so "linguistically primed" in order to acquire  
>> language, although it certainly helps (cf. Koko the gorilla).
>
> I thought one of the observations about Koko etc. was that they don't
> really have a sense of grammar, just vocabulary.  That is, they get
> symbols, but not really language.
>

There was a recent article in the BBC or SciAm that mentioned a study  
of a kind of monkey (IIRC; not apes) which seemed to be able to  
identify certain simple errors in the construction of sentences.

	--ravi