ReviewPsychonomic bulletin & review2017
Animal language studies: What happened?
Review in Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
- One Biology and the Status of Humans.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Construing Complex Referentiality in Interspecies Interaction: Embodiment and Biosemiotics.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- From Human Child to Grey Parrot: Exploring a Common Model of Word Meaning Extension Across Species.Cognitive science · 2025Article
- Soundboard-trained dogs produce non-accidental, non-random and non-imitative two-button combinations.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Intersubjectivity and the Emergence of Words.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- A Review of the Model/Rival (M/R) Technique for Training Interspecies Communication and Its Use in Behavioral Research.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- Nonhuman and Nonhuman-Human Communication: Some Issues and Questions.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The Comparative Psychology of Intelligence: Some Thirty Years Later.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Where did language come from? Precursor mechanisms in nonhuman primates.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2018Article
- Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017Review
- The Question of Capacity: Why Enculturated and Trained Animals have much to Tell Us about the Evolution of Language.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
The extent to which nonhuman animals can learn actual human language is a controversial question, but many nonhuman species have acquired elements of a two-way communication system that is, and was, sophisticated enough to enable its use in evaluating cognitive capacities. This article is a personal view of the history of these animal language studies.
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Registered trials
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