Monkeys Show Language Recognition

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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Re:shoy-bi shoy-bi shoy-bi shoy-bi shoy-bi shoy-bi

[ocularDeathRay]

I was just thinking it sounded like a Bill Cosby bit.