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Author Topic:   how did our language derive from nothing?
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Message 21 of 83 (233353)
08-15-2005 8:38 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by Wolf
08-12-2005 10:44 AM


I want to say gibbons might be wrong so lets go with a monkey species instead. A lot of study was performed on this species and it was found they have different words for, eagle, snake, jaguar, other monkeys not from their group and a few others I can't recall from memory. In all they had at least 6 sounds that ment something specific. Possibly up to 15 or so actually sounds that meant something.
Incidentally, a recent article in Nature showed that macaque monkeys have a homologue to our Broca's area. Abstract.

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