Bonobos assign meaning to food calls based on caller food preferences.

Human communication relies heavily on pragmatic competence. Speech utterances are often ambiguous requiring listeners to use interaction history, shared knowledge, presumed intention and other contextual variables to make inferences about a speaker's meaning. To probe the evolutionary origins o...

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Main Authors: Gladez Shorland, Emilie Genty, Christof Neumann, Klaus Zuberbühler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267574