• DOI:10.1007/s10071-017-1114-6
Corpus ID: 21470061

Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler ‘clucks’ and ‘purrs’

@article{Engesser2017ElementRR,
  title={Element repetition rates encode functionally distinct information in pied babbler ‘clucks’ and ‘purrs’},
  author={Sabrina Engesser and A. Ridley and S. Townsend},
  journal={Animal Cognition},
  year={2017},
  volume={20},
  pages={953-960}
}

Sabrina Engesser, A. Ridley, S. Townsend

Published 2017

Biology, Medicine

Animal Cognition

Human language is a recombinant system that achieves its productivity through the combination of a limited set of sounds. Research investigating the evolutionary origin of this generative capacity has generally focused on the capacity of non-human animals to combine different types of discrete sounds to encode new meaning, with less emphasis on meaning-differentiating mechanisms achieved through potentially simpler temporal modifications within a sequence of repeated sounds. Here we show that… CONTINUE READING

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