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What is Language?

Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 11:40 pm
by Slava
Here is a nice piece from The Guardian about communication between animals and how that might affect what we think about where human language came from:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014 ... h-language

I look forward to reading what you all have to say on this topic.

Re: What is Language?

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:50 am
by bnjtokyo
This obit from the New York Times may be of interest.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/us/28marler.html]
Peter Marler was the first to notice to distinct calls and behavior by vervet monkeys in response to different preditors