Nonadjacent Dependencies and Syntactic Structure of Chimpanzee Action During a Natural Tool-Use Task
E. Howard-Spink, M. Hayashi, T. Matsuzawa, D. Schofield, T. Gruber, D. Biro
This study examines nonadjacent dependencies in chimpanzee tool-use sequences, finding evidence of hierarchical structuring similar to human language.
bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2024Animal Behavior & Cognition