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Orangutan squeaks reveal language evolution, says study - BBC News - 0 views

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  • kaylynfukuji17 on 12 Mar 17
     
    In this article, scientists analyze 5,000 orangutan "kiss squeaks." They think that our ancestors used orangutan kiss squeaks as a precursor of consonants and vowels. The kiss squeaks require the action of the lips, tongue, and jaw similar to the movements needed to say consonants. Scientists believe orangutan kiss squeaks to be the crucial "building blocks" in the evolution of language.
Arthur Johnston

Can any animals talk and use language like humans? - 4 views

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  • Lara Cowell on 04 Nov 15
     
    This article gives a nice overview of how different animals can utilize vocalizations in meaningful ways (vocal mimicry), a behavior that's the precursor to human speech and language.
  • Arthur Johnston on 30 Mar 16
     
    In April 2010, Adriano Lameira set up his video camera in front of an enclosure at Cologne Zoo in Germany. Inside was an orangutan called Tilda. There was a rumour that Tilda could whistle like a human, and Lameira, of Amsterdam University in the Netherlands, was keen to capture it on camera. The results of this experiment were shocking and led to the question "can animals talk like humans?"
Lisa Stewart

Gestural Communication Paper - De Waal « Language Evolution - 0 views

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  • “Gestures are used across a wide range of contexts whereas most facial expressions and vocalizations are very narrowly used for one particular context,”
  • Although all primates use their voices and facial expressions to communicate, only people and the great apes — chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutan and gorillas — use these types of gestures as well. De Waal noted that great apes first appeared about 15 to 20 million years old, meaning such gestures may have been around that long. “A gesture that occurs in bonobos and chimpanzees as well as humans likely was present in the last common ancestor,” Pollick said in a statement. “A good example of a shared gesture is the open-hand begging gesture, used by both apes and humans.” This last common ancestor may date to about 5 million to 6 million years ago.
  • He added that when the apes gesture, they like to use their right hands, which is controlled by the left side of the brain — the same side where the language control center appears in the human brain.
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