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Can Chimpanzees Learn Human Language?
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In the 1940s, Keith and Kathy Hayes trained a chimpanzee named Vicki to speak four human language words, as part of an experiment to test whether humans were the only species capable of language acquisition. This raises the question of whether humans have a "language acquisition device" in their brains, and whether other species can use language like us.

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