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Review article by Klaus Zuberbühler

Great apes might be able to analyze causality in the events they observe, a capacity that might have been the basis for the evolution of human language syntax.

Chimpanzee with baby on a tree branch

This is the hypothesis formulated by primatologist Klaus Zuberbühler - member of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE) and professor at the University of Neuchâtel - in an opinion article in the British journal Philosophical Transactions, published by the prestigious Royal Society since 1665.

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Prof. Klaus Zuberbühler
Laboratoire de cognition comparée
University of Neuchâtel
Tél. + 41 32 718 31 05
klaus.zuberbuehler@unine.ch

Cite the article

Klaus Zuberbühler, Syntax and compositionality in animal communication, Phil Trans B, November 2019

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0062