Receptive Competencies of Language-Trained Animals

Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language

1985 • 2,106 citations

The serial position effect of free recall.

1962 • 1,654 citations

Teaching Sign Language to a Chimpanzee

1969 • 1,564 citations

Language and context: The acquisition of pragmatics

1976 • 1,312 citations

The Biology and Evolution of Language.

1985 • 1,155 citations

Vervet monkey alarm calls: Semantic communication in a free-ranging primate

1980 • 1,045 citations

The dance language and orientation of bees

1969 • 815 citations

Bilingual Education of Children: The St. Lambert Experiment

1973 • 813 citations

Understanding language through sign language research

1978 • 670 citations

Can an Ape Create a Sentence?

1979 • 657 citations

Cetacean Behavior: Mechanisms and Functions

1988 • 615 citations

Language Learning by a chimpanzee. The Lana Project

1978 • 604 citations

Intentional communication in the chimpanzee: The development of deception

1979 • 595 citations

IS THERE A “NATURAL SEQUENCE” IN ADULT SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING?

1974 • 566 citations

Language perspectives—Acquisition, retardation, and intervention

1975 • 563 citations

The Acquisition of Syntax in Children from 5 to 10

1971 • 551 citations

Dolphin Cognition and Behavior: A Comparative Approach

1986 • 549 citations

Control of grammar in imitation, comprehension, and production

1963 • 511 citations

Comprehension of sentences by bottlenosed dolphins

1984 • 456 citations

The Origins of Vocal Learning

1972 • 446 citations

Introduction to comparative cognition

1987 • 444 citations

Animal Sounds and Communication

1961 • 426 citations

“Gavagai!” or the future history of the animal language controversy

1985 • 381 citations

The gestures of a gorilla: Language acquisition in another pongid

1978 • 379 citations

Intelligence in ape and man

1977 • 375 citations

A Study in the Acquisition of Language: Free Responses to Commands

1969 • 299 citations

COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION*

1978 • 292 citations

Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence

1974 • 278 citations

Language, Name, and Concept

1970 • 278 citations

Vocal mimicry of computer-generated sounds and vocal labeling of objects by a bottlenosed dolphin, Tursiops truncatus..

1984 • 278 citations

Reference: The Linguistic Essential

1980 • 259 citations

Functional Vocalizations by an African Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus)

1981 • 246 citations

Signing behavior in apes: A critical review

1979 • 244 citations

Delayed Matching and Short-Term Memory in Monkeys

1973 • 240 citations

Semantic and syntactic processes in aphasia: A review of the literature.

1978 • 223 citations

Logical considerations in the study of animal communication

1960 • 216 citations

Whistle repertoires of two bottlenosed dolphins, Tursiops truncatus: mimicry of signature whistles?

1986 • 197 citations

In the beginning was the "name."

1985 • 194 citations

Two-Way Communication with an Infant Chimpanzee1 1The research described here was supported by National Institute of Mental Health grants MH-12154 and MH-34953 (Research Scientist Development Award to B. T. Gardner), by National Science Foundation grant GB-7432, and by a grant from the National Geographic Society.

1971 • 193 citations

The Ontogeny of Vervet Monkey Alarm Calling Behavior: A Preliminary Report

2010 • 188 citations

The development of Wh questions in child speech

1968 • 182 citations

The Young Child's Development of Sentence Comprehension: Influence of Event Probability, Nonverbal Context, Syntactic Form, and Strategies

1974 • 178 citations

California Sea Lions Are Capable of Semantic Comprehension

1984 • 175 citations

The feature-positive effect in adult human subjects.

1980 • 171 citations

Language learning in two species of apes

1985 • 163 citations

A vocabulary test for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

1984 • 162 citations

Development of the use of word order in comprehension

1973 • 160 citations

In the beginning was the "name."

1985 • 160 citations

The Young Child's Development of Sentence Comprehension: Influence of Event Probability, Nonverbal Context, Syntactic Form, and Strategies

1974 • 158 citations

Can a chimpanzee make a statement?

1983 • 157 citations

Evidence for sentence constitutents in the early utterances of child and chimpanzee.

1975 • 149 citations

SERIAL LEARNING IN THE PIGEON

1979 • 149 citations

Do apes use language

1980 • 129 citations

Word Order in Early Two and Three Word Utterances: Does Production Precede Comprehension?

1975 • 128 citations

The Dance-Language Controversy

1976 • 118 citations

Evolution of Intelligence and Vocal Mimicking

1962 • 108 citations

Measurement of nest cavity volume by the honey bee (Apis mellifera)

1977 • 108 citations

Symbolization, language, and chimpanzees: A theoretical reevaluation based on initial language acquisition processes in four young Pan troglodytes

1978 • 107 citations

IS PROBLEM‐SOLVING LANGUAGE?

1979 • 99 citations

The Meaning of Primate Signals

1985 • 97 citations

Memory for Lists of Sounds by the Bottle-Nosed Dolphin: Convergence of Memory Processes with Humans?

1977 • 96 citations

Is Problem-Solving Language?

1980 • 81 citations

The Clever Hans Phenomenon: Communication With Horses, Whales, Apes, and People

1981 • 80 citations

Reporting presence or absence of named objects by a language-trained dolphin

1985 • 80 citations

Behavioral Capabilities of Seals and Sea Lions: A Review of Their Hearing, Visual, Learning and Diving Skills

1981 • 74 citations

Auditory matching-to-sample in monkeys (Cebus apella)

1985 • 74 citations

On the Assessment of Language Competence in the Chimpanzee1 1This chapter is an extension of an earlier paper (copyright 1970 by the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Inc.) entitled, “A Functional Analysis of Language” (Premack, 1970); it describes a major strand of Sarah's further progress but inevitably the two reports overlap markedly. Mary Morgan, J. Olson, Randy Funk, Deborah Petersen, and Anne Premack are the exceptionally patient and ingenious research assistants who …

1971 • 66 citations

Cognition to language: Categories, word meanings, and training

1980 • 59 citations

Apes and Language: The Search for Communicative Competence

1983 • 54 citations

Language in the Great Apes: A Critical Review

1982 • 51 citations

On the evidence for linguistic abilities in signing apes

1979 • 45 citations

Ape Signing: Problems of Method and Interpretation

1981 • 39 citations

Can Apes Use Symbols to Represent Their World?*

1981 • 37 citations

Transfer of signed responses in American Sign Language from vocal English stimuli to physical object stimuli by a chimpanzee (Pan)

1976 • 34 citations

The Effect of Word Order on Young Children's Responses to Simple Questions and Commands

1973 • 30 citations

Apes and Language

1980 • 29 citations

The Effect of Word Order on Young Children's Responses to Simple Questions and Commands

1973 • 23 citations

Processing and retention of complex auditory stimuli in monkeys (Cebus apella).

1984 • 21 citations

Sign Language and Language Acquisition in Man and Ape: New Dimensions in Comparative Pedolinguistics

1980 • 21 citations

Language: The Problem Beyond Conditioning

1978 • 19 citations

Talking, understanding, and thinking: Developmental relationship between receptive and expressive language

1974 • 16 citations

Communication by a chimpanzee: First-trial mastery of word order that is critical for meaning, but failure to negate conjunctions

1981 • 9 citations

New approaches to language acquisition

1980 • 8 citations

Comprehension and production of sign language by a chimpanzee

1976 • 2 citations