Essay Question I found Dwight Bollinger’s essay entitled “The Origin of Language” to be a very interesting work. I especially enjoyed the section about the chimpanzees. Although we know that animals can communicate with one another in their own way, they are limited by the barriers of fixity of reference and holophrasis. There is no way they could achieve syntax which means that most animals cannot achieve true language as we define it. It …showed first 75 words of 298 total…

…showed last 75 words of 298 total…these questions would help me to decide whether these special chimps have “language.” As it stands now, with the information I have been given, I would have to conclude that they have a low level form of language but have not arrived at the standard for true language. Chimpanzees are not the only subjects which are being investigated. I have read that experiments have been going on for years involving the communication levels of dolphins.