Efforts to Teach Apes Human Language Often Focus On

question 89

Multiple Choice

Efforts to teach apes human language often focus on:

• A)providing them with models of other species who have been taught language.
• B)training them to produce human speech sounds.
• C)careful observation of the apes' own speech systems.
• D)teaching them American Sign Language (ASL).

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