7 1 point In the 1960s, Beatrice and Roger Gardner began Project Washoe, a remarkable attempt to teach American Sign Language to a female chimpanzee named Washoe. By the time she was four years old, she had a vocabulary of more than 130 words and was able to produce two-word sentences such as "Washoe sorry," "gimme flower," "more fruit," and "Roger tickle." Mark the option that INCORRECTLY states the conclusion reached by the field regarding language acquisition by primates: O O O O Sequences of signs such as "please milk please me like drink apple bottle," produced by a young gorilla, are nothing like the sequences that human children produce. It is possible that the apes are simply imitating the gestures made by their trainers to get rewards. If apes undertake intensive language training throughout their lives, they can acquire language with all the properties that characterize human language. Chimpanzees can apparently use symbols to represent real objects and can manipulate these symbols logically but are not able to generate grammatical sentences. Clear my selection Previous Next