| Literature DB >> 26346993 |
Daniel L Bowling1, W Tecumseh Fitch2.
Abstract
Biologists often ask whether animal communication systems make use of conceptual entities from linguistics, such as semantics or syntax. A new study of an Australian bird species argues that their communication system has phonemes, but we argue that imposing linguistic concepts obscures, rather than clarifyies, communicative function.Keywords: Language; animal communication; phoneme; phonology; sequence; syntax
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Year: 2015 PMID： 26346993 DOI： 10.1016/j.tics.2015.08.011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Cogn Sci ISSN： 1364-6613 Impact factor: 20.229