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Comprehension precedes production of a complex call sequence

2026-06-28

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Growing evidence of animals combining discrete, meaningful calls into sequences—a feature once thought unique to linguistic syntax—has presented the opportunity to investigate the evolutionary origins of syntactic communication. The arbitrary assignment of meaning to words marks an important step in human language evolution, and a necessary precursor to generating further meaning through sentences. Studying how ot...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.22.733898

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