Professor Herbert Terrace and his student volunteers from Columbia University bring Nim Chimpsky to the University of Oklahoma's Institute of Primate Studies, where he meets his first signing chimpanzee, Mac. When Nim first saw Mac he was appalled but later they became good friends. Project Nim was an extended study of animal language acquisition (codenamed 6.001) at Columbia University, led by Herbert S. Terrace; the linguistic analysis was led by the psycholinguist Thomas Bever. Chimpsky was given his name as a pun on Noam Chomsky, a leading theorist on human language structure and generative grammar, who holds that humans are wired to develop language. | |
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