Looking for structure: Is the two-word stage of language development in apes and human children the same or different?

Previously published corpora of two-word utterances by three chimpanzees and three human children were compared to determine whether, as has been claimed, apes possess the same basic syntactic and semantic capacities as 2-year old children. Some similarities were observed in the type of semantic rel...

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Main Author: Mark Patkowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts Adam Mickiewicz University 2014-01-01
Series:Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Online Access:http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt/article/view/3932