(who could never speak since birth) understands human language.
They both hear and recognize words. But neither of them can use the words in speech.
What can a mute person do with human language that a Chimpanzee can't do.|||The human can fully comprehend all language (just spoken, in this experiment), but cannot express it vocally. However, her or she can express everything that he/she would normally express through sign language, or writing/typing, or typing something out in Morse code on a telegraph... he/she just completely understand and can express, with the sole exception of verbally.
The chimpanzee can recognize some words, but is unable to comprehend grammar, inflections that change the meaning of a word, particular use of one synonym instead of another, and so on. The chimpanzee does not comprehend the human language. They're like smart dogs. Sit, stay, food, hug, shake hands, put on a tutu and ride a unicycle... but it does not understand anything more than a simple concept associated with those sounds, not why those sounds mean something. It certainly cannot express anything more than very basic desires, such as reaching for food, or a hug, or other easily understood and expressed concepts.
They may be our closest genetic relatives -- but they wildly distant from anything resembling humans or human intelligence.
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