Is Language the Key to Human Intelligence?

David Premack

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What factors make humans unique? Spoken language? Recursion? In his Perspective, Premack uses a recent study showing that tamarin monkeys can acquire nonrecursive but not recursive grammar ( Fitch et al.) as a springboard to discuss various aspects of human uniqueness.

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