Meaning in great ape communication: summarising the debate

Does non-human great ape communication have meaning in the same way as human words (and some other human behaviours)? I recently argued that the answer to this question is most likely to be in the negative (Scott-Phillips in Anim Cogn 18(3):801–805, 2015a). Here, I (1) briefly respond to criticism o...

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Autor principal: Scott-Phillips, Thomas C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26573579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-015-0936-3
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spelling pubmed-47017662016-01-11 Meaning in great ape communication: summarising the debate Scott-Phillips, Thomas C. Anim Cogn Short Communication Does non-human great ape communication have meaning in the same way as human words (and some other human behaviours)? I recently argued that the answer to this question is most likely to be in the negative (Scott-Phillips in Anim Cogn 18(3):801–805, 2015a). Here, I (1) briefly respond to criticism of this view; (2) describe exactly what sort of empirical study could settle the matter; and (3) discuss what the best working hypotheses should be, in the absence of definitive empirical studies. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015-11-16 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4701766/ /pubmed/26573579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-015-0936-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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