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OCR: Furthermore human language uses strings of strings such as the word phrases that make up this sentence The simplest ways of generating word collections such as pidgin dialects (or my tourist German) are known as protolanguage In a protolanguage the association of the words carries the message with perhaps some assistance from customary word order (such as the subject -verb object orderin English declarative sentences) Our closest animal cousins, the common chimpanzee ano the bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee) can achieve surprising levels of language comprehension when motivated by skilled teachers. Kanzi, the most accomplished bonobo can interpret sentences he has never heard before such as "GO to the office and bring back the red ball, about as well as 5- -year-old child. Neither Kanzi nor the ch ...