ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
Chestnut-crowned babbler calls are composed of meaningless shared building blocks.
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
A core component of human language is its combinatorial sound system: meaningful signals are built from different combinations of meaningless sounds. Investigating whether nonhuman communication systems are also combinatorial is hampered by difficulties in identifying the extent to which vocalizations are constructed from shared, meaningless building blocks. Here we present an approach to circumvent this difficulty and show that a pair of functionally distinct chestnut-crowned babbler (
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