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hold abilities for generating and communicating the Symbol s of abstract language, though they have not manifested such abilities in nature. The field of Cognitive Linguistics generally holds that ''language is innate to each species'' as developed by a long processes of natural selection (ie. Evolution ) for the purpose of survival. Hence cognitive linguists hold it to be unwise to believe that an animal species has the capacity for abstract language if it has not already developed and manifest such an ability. Where research into understanding native animal language may be slow and hard to translate and interpret, experiments in ALA typically propose that animals can (to some degree or other) ''acquire'' aspects of human speech or signing which will quickly reveal (or jumpstart) an ability to communicate symbolically with humans. Washoe , Nim Chimpsky , et al. |
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