The emergence of knapping and vocal expression embedded in a Pan/Homo culture

Fields, William M.; Spircu, Tiberu

doi:10.1007/sbiph-004-0528-0

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“…This is to say, they elicit vocalizations not documented in the repertoire of other bonobos. They use their vocalizations to convey specific information to each other (Taglialatela et al 2003;Savage-Rumbaugh et al 2004) and it seems likely that they attempt to accommodate to the spoken English they are surrounded by. At present, three new vocalizations have been documented.…”

Section: Apes and Languagementioning

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Aspects of Repetition in Bonobo–Human Conversation: Creating Cohesion in a Conversation Between Species

Pedersen

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2008

Integr. psych. behav.

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Ape language research has primarily focused on specific isolated language features. In contrast, in research into human language, traditions such as conversational analysis and discourse analysis propose to study language as actual discourse. Consequently, repetitions are seen as accomplishing various discursive and pragmatic functions in human conversations, while in apes, repetitions are seen as rote imitations and as proof that apes do not exhibit language. Tools from discourse analysis are applied in this study to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo, Pan paniscus and a human. The hypothesis is that the bonobo may exhibit even larger linguistic competency in ordinary conversation than in controlled experimental settings. Despite her limited productive means, the bonobo Panbanisha competently engages in co-constructing the conversational turns. She uses shared knowledge and repetitions to achieve compliance with a request. This reveals a knowledge about socio-linguistic interactions which goes beyond the pure informational content of words.

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Section: Apes and Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

Aspects of Repetition in Bonobo–Human Conversation: Creating Cohesion in a Conversation Between Species

Pedersen

Fields²

2008

Integr. psych. behav.

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“…Mitani et al 1992). Further indications for the flexibility of primates to generate new vocalizations comes from an earlier study on bonobos (Pan paniscus), where it was shown that one bonobo (Kanzi, Pan paniscus) might have other structurally different vocalizations than bonobos in another group (Hopkins and Savage-Rumbaugh 1991) and it has been suggested that he was attempting to imitate human speech (Savage-Rumbaugh et al 2004). These authors conclude that chimpanzees can therefore generate novel sound signals.…”

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A case of spontaneous acquisition of a human sound by an orangutan

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The capacity of nonhuman primates to actively modify the acoustic structure of existing sounds or vocalizations in their repertoire appears limited. Several studies have reported population or community differences in the acoustical structure of nonhuman primate long distance calls and have suggested vocal learning as a mechanism for explaining such variation. In addition, recent studies on great apes have indicated that there are repertoire differences between populations. Some populations have sounds in their repertoire that others have not. These differences have also been suggested to be the result of vocal learning. On yet another level great apes can, after extensive human training, also learn some species atypical vocalizations. Here we show a new aspect of great ape vocal learning by providing data that an orangutan has spontaneously (without any training) acquired a human whistle and can modulate the duration and number of whistles to copy a human model. This might indicate that the learning capacities of great apes in the auditory domain might be more flexible than hitherto assumed.

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“…Additionally, recent publications have explored the development of cultural scaffolding of cognitive abilities in these apes at Language Research Center and now the Great Ape Trust of Iowa (Savage- Rumbaugh et al 2004 ) . The intensive 24-h interaction among the apes and humans, sharing daily activities and communicative modes, have produced extended spontaneous cognitive and social abilities not otherwise documented in these species, for example, pretend play (Lyn et al 2006 ) and joint attention and imitation (Savage- Rumbaugh et al 2004 ) .…”

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confidence: 99%