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Optionality in animal communication: a novel framework for examining the evolution of arbitrariness

A critical feature of language is that the form of words need not bear any perceptual similarity to their function – these relationships can be ‘arbitrary’. The capacity to process these arbitrary form–function associations facilitates the enormous expressive power of language. However, the evolutio...

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Autores principales: Watson, Stuart K., Filippi, Piera, Gasparri, Luca, Falk, Nikola, Tamer, Nicole, Widmer, Paul, Manser, Marta, Glock, Hans‐Johann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9795909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35818133
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12882