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Animals and Human Communication — David Adger / Serious Science

Linguist David Adger on sound processing in animals, bonobo Kanzi and the nature of linguistic differences between animals and humans. Read the full text on our website: http://serious-science.org/animals-an... 'So we thought way back in the 50s that maybe we discovered something special about humans, this idea that humans make a categorical language split between sounds, two different categories of ‘t’ vs. ‘d’, ‘p’ vs. ‘b’, ‘k’ vs. ‘g’ and so on. But actually it turns out the chinchillas can do it, rats can do it, monkeys can do it, lizards can do it, snakes can do it, virtually everyone can do it. So it's not remotely a special human ability.' David Adger, Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London Language and Artificial Intelligence: http://serious-science.org/language-a... Two Theories of Language Acquisition: http://serious-science.org/two-theori... Be the first to find out about our new videos and articles. Learn interesting facts about various topics and people. Discover the answers to the big questions. Be in the know. http://serious-science.org/ Follow us: We are on Patreon:   / seriousscience   Facebook —   / serious.science.org   Twitter —   / scienceserious   YouTube —    / seriousscience   Instagram —   / serious.science   Tumblr —   / serious-science   VK — https://vk.com/seriousscience