Experimental Evidence for Phonemic Contrasts in a Nonhuman Vocal System.

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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Main Authors: Sabrina Engesser, Jodie M S Crane, James L Savage, Andrew F Russell, Simon W Townsend
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4488142?pdf=render

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