Call combinations in monkeys: Compositional or idiomatic expressions?

Brain and Language

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 303-309

  Arnold, Kate ^a   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cercopithecus; Combinatorial signal; Language evolution; Meaning; Primate communication; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; FEMALE; HEARING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; LOCOMOTION; LOUDNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CERCOPITHECUS; FEMALE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84858005801     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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