The dolphin's grammatical competency: Comments on Kako (1999)

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-23

  Herman, Louis M ^a,b   Uyeyama, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Kewalo Basin Mar Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COGNITION; COMPETENCE; DOLPHIN; LANGUAGE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033064683     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03199426     Document Type: Review

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