Monkey semantics: two ‘dialects’ of Campbell’s monkey alarm calls

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 439-501

  Schlenker, Philippe ^a   Chemla, Emmanuel ^b   Arnold, Kate ^c   Lemasson, Alban ^d,e   Ouattara, Karim ^f   Keenan, Sumir ^c   Stephan, Claudia ^c,g   Ryder, Robin ^h   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^c,g  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Primate communication; Primate linguistics; Primate semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916885274     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-014-9155-7     Document Type: Article

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