A highly trained bonobo called Kanzi can obey commands such as " Give water (to) Rose" .
一只名叫Kanzi的受过良好训练的倭黑猩猩能够服从诸如“给玫瑰浇水”之类的命令。
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But Kanzi does no better than random chance when told to " Give water and lighter to Rose."
但是当Kanzi被告知“给玫瑰浇水和给玫瑰打火机”时,他的表现并不比随机选择好多少。
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Meanwhile, a two-year-old child tested alongside Kanzi quickly intuits that two nouns can make up a noun phrase, tucked as a direct object into a verb phrase, which in turn is part of a sentence.
大猿信托基金会(Great Ape Trust)研究中心(坎兹称之为「家」)采取了新的符号字语言学习法,让类人猿(倭黑猩猩)出生后就开始由研究中心来扶养,且使周围环境充满着口述与符号字的语言。如同人类母亲带着小孩成长,不管小孩懂不懂、妈妈们都会对着小孩叨叨絮絮的讲所见闻的一切。研究中心的科学家也如此的向倭黑猩猩讲话。信托基金会认为沉浸在这样的语言浸染的环境下,倭黑猩猩的沟通技巧可以学得更好、较快,也使语言的演化能更加复杂化。
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Kanzi 坎兹
Kanzi (born October 28, 1980), also known by the lexigram (from the character 太), is a male bonobo who has been featured in several studies on great ape language. According to Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, a primatologist who has studied the bonobo throughout his life, Kanzi has exhibited advanced linguistic aptitude.