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- Title
Campbell's Monkeys Use Affixation to Alter Call Meaning.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study which describe a functional analogy to a common morphological process in human speech, affixation, in the alarm calls of free-ranging adult Campbell's monkeys. According to the results of the study, male alarm calls are composed of an acoustically variable stem, which can be followed by an acoustically invariable suffix. It is mentioned that the study concluded, non-human primates can generate meaningful acoustic variation during call production that is functionally equivalent to suffixation in human language.
- Subjects
PRIMATES; CERCOPITHECIDAE; RHINOPITHECUS; SPEECH; MAMMALS; AUDITORY adaptation; CERCOPITHECUS; LANGUAGE &; languages; ANALOGY
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2009, Vol 4, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0007808