Savage-rumbough et al.

Question	Answer
Environment	55 acres of forest Indoor environment - K and M helped in various activities e.g. Doing laundry
Exposure to language	Exposure from 6th months, observing Matata (mother) Mulika learned through watching Kanzi Not trained to use lexigrams like Sherman and Austin
Classification of utterances	Accurate, spontaneous, imitated, structured
Controlled tests	Shown photographs - select lexigrams Listen to word - select photo Listen to word - select lexigrams
Kanzi	Pygmy (bonbo chimp) 30-47 months during report
Mulika	Kanzi's sister 11-21 months during report
What kind of experiment was it?	Longtitudinal cast study spanning 17 months
First use of 'speech	Kanzi (17 months) - Banana, Chase, peanut Mulika (12 months) - milk, all purpose work for food and picked up.
How many words did they learn	Kanzi - 46 Mulika - 37
How many combinations did Kanzi produce?	Kanzi - 2,540 non-imitated plus 265 which were promted
How many utterances were spontaneous?	80% 15% - imitated
Special thing Kanzi could do	Could lead a visitor through the learning centre to certain locations on request
Quantitative data	Number of words aquired, percentage imitated
Qualitative	The the chimps used words

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