Chapter 2 Web Links

Testing sentence comprehension in a bonobo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dhc2zePJFE

In this video from the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, researcher Sue Savage-Rumbaugh combines words in novel combinations while wearing a mask to avoid giving her bonobo subject inadvertent facial cues.

Using visual symbols with a bonobo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EZofdBBqhk&index=19&list=PL67D1AB22635A5357

In this video from the Great Ape Trust in Iowa, researchers demonstrate how Panbanisha, an adult female bonobo, can match visual symbols (and their corresponding spoken words) with their referents.

Rhyming in American Sign Language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIoFpxAo93U

In this video, deaf storyteller and vlogger Austin W. Andrews (a.k.a. Awti) explains how to translate nursery rhymes from English to ASL. (If you don’t understand ASL, be sure to turn the captions on.)