From National Geographic News:Monkeys can form sentences and speak in accents—and now a new study shows that our genetic relatives can also recognize poor grammar. "We were really curious whether monkeys could even detect the common trend found in human language to add sounds to word edges, like adding 'ed' in English to create the past tense," said lead study author Ansgar Endress, a linguist at Harvard University. Previous research in cotton-top tamarins had shown that the animals can understand basic grammar, for instance, identifying which words logically follow other words in a sentence.
But that same study, published in the journal Science in 2004, found that monkeys did not understand complex grammar, such as when words in a sentence depend on each other but are separated. While that study suggested monkeys were deaf to complex communication, the new research shows that tamarins can grasp at least one advanced concept: prefixes and suffixes.
monkey are train to climb coconut trees but learning language not really capable.It's something due to the cognitive brain where can't hold and transmit message as human.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining the discussion, Larry! Yours is indeed a commonly-held belief. However, there is a large community of expert cognitive linguists and evolutionary biologists who have proven otherwise.
ReplyDelete