Aim: To study language acquisition in two pygmy chimps and compare this to 2 common chimps
Participants
- 2 pygmy chimps
- Kanzi aged 4
- Mulika aged 3 ( Kanzi's sister)
- 2 common chimps sherman and austin
- aged 9 and 10
Method:
- Longitudinal study
- 17 month period
- Quasi experiment
- IV species DV language Accquisition
- types of communication Lexigram, Pointing board for outside, spoken english and gestures
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