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Monkeys Show Language Recognition

Posted by samzenpus on from the 100-different-words-for-banana dept.

mmmscience writes "The cotton-top tamarin monkeys can apparently tell the difference between suffixes and prefixes. They will turn to face the direction of recorded words when they hear the nonsense syllables "bi-shoy" change to "shoy-bi." The lead author, Ansgar Endress, suggests that this is just like how human infants learn language, by tracking the beginning and ends of words."

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  1. Yeah but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Can they tell the difference between axe and ask?