Upcoming events
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Mon29Mar20211:30 pmMS-Teams
Jóhanna Barðdal & Leonid Kulikov (UGent) (based on joint work with Cynthia A. Johnson, Peter Alexander Kerkhof & Esther Le Mair): How to Succeed in Germanic and Indo-European without even Trying
Show contentJóhanna Barðdal & Leonid Kulikov (UGent) (based on joint work with Cynthia A. Johnson, Peter Alexander Kerkhof & Esther Le Mair): ‘How to Succeed in Germanic and Indo-European without even Trying’
Nieuw datum: MAANDAG 29/03/2021 i.p.v. 02/04/2021
De vergadering zal via MS-Teams plaatsvinden: link te vinden in nieuwsbrief
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Past events
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Mon23Mar20263:00 pmBlandijn 2 3.30 (Camelot)
Didier Demolin (Université Sorbonne nouvelle, CNRS & Rhodes University Makhanda) & Francisco Mendes (Federal University of Brasilia) - "Acoustic features and grammatical structures of Muriqui vocalizations"
Show contentVocal communication of the Muriqui
Abstract:
What can we learn from animal communication, if we set this issue in terms of evolution? Comparisons with animal communication lead to a better understanding of some of the principles underlying human languages. Muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxantus) show that the acoustics of their vocalizations are generated from a set limited features in addition to showing non-linear characters in their voice source. A close examination of the communication system of the muriqui also shows that the recombination of discrete elements in part of their vocal communication shows both recursion and grammatical structure.