Category: Language Acquisition
Why, hello there! It’s been ages since I’ve posted, but I’ve been pretty busy with a tiny new experiment. Ryden was born in October (the photo was taken at not-quite-two-months) and is now emphatically ingesting solids, crawling (but only backwards), and beginning to babble. Now that my life has gone from hallucinatorily topsy-turvy to relatively…
Can animals have language the way humans have language? From recent news headlines about a famous ape and her passing, one might conclude: yes. Titles such as “Koko: Gorilla who mastered sign language dies in California” and “Koko, the Gorilla Who Knew Sign Language, Dies at 46” imply that non-human primates, at least, can learn and use…
