The Syntax and Meaning of Wild Gibbon Songs

Spoken language is a result of the human capacity to assemble simple vocal units into more complex utterances, the basic carriers of semantic information. Not much is known about the evolutionary origins of this behaviour. The vocal abilities of non-human primates are relatively unimpressive in comp...

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Main Authors: Clarke, Esther, Reichard, Ulrich H., Zuberbühler, Klaus
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2006
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1762393/