Verkkoit covers ‘insights from comparative animal behaviour’, ‘the biology of language evolution’, ‘the prehistory of language’, theories on the initial emergence. Verkkothe extent to which nonhuman animals can learn actual human language is a controversial question, but many nonhuman species have acquired. Verkkodifferent orientation based essentially on the study of washoe's behaviour when living with other chimpanzees: Domestic home life was replaced by the conditions found in. Verkkowashoe became the first animal to acquire human sign language. Their research was published in the journal science in august 1969. Verkkoultimately, with an illustrative model, this article proposes a strong overlap of animal communication with language. This approach illuminates more of. Verkkowashoe became famous in the late 1960s for being the first nonhuman to use a human language, namely, american sign language (asl).
