Scientists have long considered the complexity of language to be an obvious separation between humans and all other life ...
Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...
The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...
Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...
Scientists have shown that bonobos combine their calls into complex sound sequences that resemble combinations of human words ...
Wild bonobos – our closest living relatives – communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key ...
Navigating communication with a non-verbal child with autism can feel like learning a new language. During Autism Awareness ...