Thanks for the suggestion, though I don’t think they are smart enough to get far with grammar. No non-cetaceans non-humans seem to be.
One possibility is to try it with bottlenose dolphins (or beluga whales). (Bottlenose dolphins have shown greater capacity to learn grammar than great apes.[1]) Those are likely easier to get research access to than orcas. I think we might get some proof of concept of the methodology there, though I’m relatively pessimistic about them learning a full language well.
Thanks for the suggestion, though I don’t think they are smart enough to get far with grammar. No non-cetaceans non-humans seem to be.
One possibility is to try it with bottlenose dolphins (or beluga whales). (Bottlenose dolphins have shown greater capacity to learn grammar than great apes.[1]) Those are likely easier to get research access to than orcas. I think we might get some proof of concept of the methodology there, though I’m relatively pessimistic about them learning a full language well.
See the work of Louis Herman in the 80s (and 90s)