title: Animal language studies: What happened?
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, William James Hall, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA. impepper@wjh.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Irene M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Pepperberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007858:Learning
keywords: Animal cognition; Animal language studies; Interspecies communication; Language evolution