Questions in Animal Language Research
Animal language research attempts to answer the following questions:
- What problems can animals solve without language, and can they solve them better after they have received language training?
- Can the lessons learned in teaching animals be applied to human children?
- How, and how much, do animals' abilities to learn language differ from those of humans?
- Are the abilities that underlie language general or highly specialized?
- Where is the line between language and other forms of communication?
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