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Are you impressed with that Kanzi can do? Or didn't his (and other apes')
performance convince you of the language competence in non-human primates?
Did your reading up on this issue change your views on the nature of language
or the origin of language? Do the findings reported in the paper affect
transformational or autonomous theories on syntax? Or is there, in the
end, quite simply no debate and are the researches in the field merely
fanatics, as Chomsky would have it?
You've been able to read our opinion at the end of the paper. We would
love to know yours! You can send mail to nhp.language@hotbot.com.
We will try to respond to your comments asap.
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end of June, we hope to publish a selection of reactions from newsgroups,
mailing lists and individuals. For an animated discussion, we refer to
the archive of the linguistics@onelist.com mailing list at http://www.onelist.com/arcindex.cgi?listname=linguistics.
Digest 186 and following relate to the debate on NHPs and language. One
of us joined the debate from digest 189 onwards.
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