ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chantek, Francine Patterson, Operant Conditioning
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1 st non human to speak a human language (sign language) He was copying humans in order to learn how to interact. Some animals don"t have the same brain (vocal apparatus) and are not capable of making the same sounds as humans do: nim chimpsky. Chimps used symbols to show what they needed but the symbols do not look like the banana itself to show that they are not only looking at images. Lived like a human and signed what she wanted or how she was feeling without humans helping her or showing her images. The animals are replicating and not actually understanding the symbols but are just copying their trainers. Patterns of speaking discoverable in actual speech. The rules of examining principles that predict how sounds are made and how they"re used. How sounds convey meaning and meaningful sound sequences are strung together to form words (morphology)
