Experimental Evidence for Phonemic Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System.
The ability to generate new meaning by rearranging combinations of meaningless sounds is a fundamental component of language. Although animal vocalizations often comprise combinations of meaningless acoustic elements, evidence that rearranging such combinations generates functionally distinct meanin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4488142?pdf=render |