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An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

It’s a question that has fascinated researchers and thinkers of various traditions. Animals and humans have always interpenetrated and shaped each other’s worlds, but the project of understanding how ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is slated to be a universal animal language translator, thus you can speak with your favorite pet, such as a lovable dog. In today’s column, I explore a touted ...

Anna Jon-And receives funding from from the Swedish Research Council and has received funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Johan Lind has received funding from the Swedish Research ...

Human reading looks so ordinary that it is easy to treat it as the default way brains extract meaning from marks. Yet when I look at what animals can do with symbols, numbers, and sounds, the picture ...

There are many forms of animal communication. In the lyrics of Let’s Do It, Cole Porter celebrated the diversity of signals that birds, bees, oysters, clams, sponges, and electric eels produce to ...

Communication between species has a long and wishful history, beginning with myths, legends, and stories like those of King Solomon and Doctor Dolittle. In the past century, that history has blossomed ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a famous horse named Clever Hans toured Germany. The horse stunned crowds as his trainer demonstrated the animal's alleged ability to understand German, tell time and ...