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Title: Nim Chimpsky Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:nim-chimpsky URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_Chimpsky Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT Nim Chimpsky was a chimpanzee used in a study to determine whether chimps could learn a human language, American Sign Language (ASL). The project was led by Herbert S. Terrace of Columbia University with linguistic analysis by psycholinguist Thomas Bever. Chimpsky was named as a pun on linguist Noam Chomsky, who posited that humans are "wired" to develop language.