Systems Underlying Human and Old World Monkey Communication: One, Two, or Infinite

Using artificially synthesized stimuli, previous research has shown that cotton-top tamarin monkeys easily learn simple AB grammar sequences, but not the more complex AnBn sequences that require hierarchical structure. Humans have no trouble learning AnBn combinations. A more recent study, using sim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miyagawa, Shigeru, Clarke, Esther
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media SA 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126664