Animal Behavior & CognitionPeerJPeer-reviewed
Nonadjacent Dependencies and Syntactic Structure of Chimpanzee Action During a Natural Tool-Use Task
Elliot Howard-Spink, Misato Hayashi, Tetsuro Matsuzawa…·Dora Biro
This study examines nonadjacent dependencies in chimpanzee tool-use sequences, finding evidence of hierarchical structuring similar to human language.
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