RE: Primate Rights

From: Bruce Jones (BruceJ@nwths.com)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 18:05:07 BST

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Spight [SMTP:bspight@pacbell.net]
> Subject: Re: Primate Rights
>
> Dear Lawrence,
>
> > I wonder why chimpanzes would not have grammar in the wild. Is the
> > suggestion that they 'learn' grammatical construction from their human
> > contacts?
        [BJ] Who says there is no grammatical construction in a chimps
language? Grammatical syntax is culture and language dependent. English
differs from German, Russian, Arabic, etc. based on the culture of the
language. Until someone speaks fluent "native" chimpanzee we will not be
able to determine the structure of the language.
        When you learn a new language do you always get the syntax correct?
Probably not because you are building your interpretation of the language on
your own languages syntax .... same with chimps.
        [BJ]
        IMHO

Bruce Jones

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