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... signs resemble spoken words , and how do apes use such signs ? The Gardners write : As words can be analyzed into phonemes , so signs can be analyzed into what have been called cheremes . There are fifty - five cheremes , nineteen of ...
... signs resemble spoken words , and how do apes use such signs ? The Gardners write : As words can be analyzed into phonemes , so signs can be analyzed into what have been called cheremes . There are fifty - five cheremes , nineteen of ...
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... signs and to comprehend about 200. Nim clearly had preferred word orders . The pivot words more and give usually come before the thing demanded , and beneficiaries of an action would follow . Nim reached a mean phrase length of 1.6 signs ...
... signs and to comprehend about 200. Nim clearly had preferred word orders . The pivot words more and give usually come before the thing demanded , and beneficiaries of an action would follow . Nim reached a mean phrase length of 1.6 signs ...
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... signs imitated the teachers previous signs . In contrast , some 60 per cent of Chantek's remarks were spontaneous , in that the animal initiated the exchange , with no previous remark of its care- taker . The one measure where Chantek ...
... signs imitated the teachers previous signs . In contrast , some 60 per cent of Chantek's remarks were spontaneous , in that the animal initiated the exchange , with no previous remark of its care- taker . The one measure where Chantek ...
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WHAT WHERE | 3 |
ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES | 34 |
FOOD AND FEEDING | 45 |
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