Teaching Language to Apes Throughout the history, all efforts to teach speech to animals have failed ASL was thought to chimpanzees to some extent Lana Project at Emory University Try to teach Yerkish to chimps Chimps are able to form novel and meaningful chainsTeaching Language to Apes • Throughout the history, all efforts to teach speech to animals have failed • ASL was thought to chimpanzees to some extent • Lana Project at Emory University: – Try to teach Yerkish to chimps – Chimps are able to form novel and meaningful chains