Nim Chimpsky
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Nim Chimpsky (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee and the subject of an extended study of animal language acquisition at Columbia University. The project was led by Herbert S. Terrace with the linguistic analysis headed up by psycholinguist Thomas Bever. Chimpsky was given his name as a pun on linguist Noam Chomsky, who holds that humans are "wired" to develop language.
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Nim Chimpsky" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
