Contextual semanticization of songstring syntax: A possible path to human language

AISB'05 Convention: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents - Proc. of the 2nd International Symposium on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, EELC'05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 72-76

  Merker, Bjorn ^a   Okanoya, Kazuo ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CROSS-MATCHING; HUMAN LANGUAGE; HUMPBACK WHALES; SEMANTIC COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SUBSTRING;

BIOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; LINGUISTICS; MAMMALS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 54049108378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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