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Nim Chimpsky and trainer

Editorial use only . Nim Chimpsky with a student trainer practicing sign language. Project Nim was an extended study of animal language acquisition (codenamed 6.001) at Columbia University, led by Herbert S. Terrace; the linguistic analysis was led by the psycholinguist Thomas Bever. Chimpsky was given his name as a pun on Noam Chomsky, a leading theorist on human language structure and generative grammar, who holds that humans are wired to develop language.
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Nim Chimpsky and trainer
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Editorial use only . Nim Chimpsky with a student trainer practicing sign language. Project Nim was an extended study of animal language acquisition (codenamed 6.001) at Columbia University, led by Herbert S. Terrace; the linguistic analysis was led by the psycholinguist Thomas Bever. Chimpsky was given his name as a pun on Noam Chomsky, a leading theorist on human language structure and generative grammar, who holds that humans are wired to develop language.
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Album / Science Source / Susan Kuklin
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3368 x 3274 px | 31.5 MB
Print size:
28.5 x 27.7 cm | 11.2 x 10.9 in (300 dpi)