Journal articles: 'Human-animal communication'

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Kulick, Don. "Human–Animal Communication." Annual Review of Anthropology 46, no. 1 (October 23, 2017): 357–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102116-041723.

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Schutten, Julie Kalil. "Perspectives on human-animal communication: internatural communication." Environmental Communication 9, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 137–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2014.1002242.

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AHMED, Khalid Ahmed Hassan. "INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF HUMAN ANIMAL COMMUNICATION." International Journal of Humanities and Educational Research 03, no. 03 (June 1, 2021): 80–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2757-5403.3-3.9.

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This study aims at reviewing a bulk of related studies, and some verses from the Holly Qur'an in order to discover some mysteries of human animal communication. We believe that the majority of the previous studies concern themselves with human attempts to teach human speech to animals. There are a lot of mysteries that surround human animal communication. Furthermore, there are some intersections between human and animals’ ways of interaction. We believe that human speech is one of the most amazing human properties; at the same time, we believe that animals have very advanced ways of communication. However, humans and animals have the access to be involved in interaction and communications with each other and with other species of animals. Our mere observations could maintain this hypothesis of joined human animal communications. This study is an attempt to establish a theoretical framework on which humans and animals can interact and communicate jointly among themselves and other types of animals as well. To process the study some of the related studies will be outlined, discussed and analyzed, and then they will be correlated with the findings of the selected Holly Qur’an verses. Out of these studies some assumptions will be outlined in order to be treated through the discussion, results and recommendations for further studies..

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Plous, S. "Animal models of human communication." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16, no. 4 (December 1993): 660. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00032258.

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Scott-Phillips, Thomas C. "Meaning in animal and human communication." Animal Cognition 18, no. 3 (February 3, 2015): 801–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-015-0845-5.

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Brainard, Michael S., and W. Tecumseh Fitch. "Editorial overview: Communication and language: Animal communication and human language." Current Opinion in Neurobiology 28 (October 2014): v—viii. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2014.07.015.

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Lestel, Dominique. "Human/animal communications, language, and evolution." Sign Systems Studies 30, no. 1 (December 31, 2002): 201–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2002.30.1.12.

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The article compares the research programs of teaching symbolic language to chimpanzees, pointing on the dichotomy between artificial language vs. ASL, and the dichotomy between researchers who decided to establish emotional relationships between themselves and the apes, and those who have seen apes as instrumental devices. It is concluded that the experiments with the most interesting results have been both with artificial language and ASL, but with strong affiliation between researchers and animal involved in the experiments. The experiments on talking apes are not so much experiments in psycholinguistics (how far can animal learn human language) but wonderful experiments in the communities of communication between human beings and great apes.

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Fishbein, Adam R., Jonathan B. Fritz, William J. Idsardi, and Gerald S. Wilkinson. "What can animal communication teach us about human language?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375, no. 1789 (November 18, 2019): 20190042. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0042.

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Language has been considered by many to be uniquely human. Numerous theories for how it evolved have been proposed but rarely tested. The articles in this theme issue consider the extent to which aspects of language, such as vocal learning, phonology, syntax, semantics, intentionality, cognition and neurobiological adaptations, are shared with other animals. By adopting a comparative approach, insights into the mechanisms and origins of human language can be gained. While points of agreement exist among the authors, conflicting viewpoints are expressed on several issues, such as the presence of proto-syntax in animal communication, the neural basis of the Merge operation, and the neurogenetic changes necessary for vocal learning. Future comparative research in animal communication has the potential to teach us even more about the evolution, neurobiology and cognitive basis of human language. This article is part of the theme issue ‘What can animal communication teach us about human language?’

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Fitch, W. Tecumseh. "Animal cognition and the evolution of human language: why we cannot focus solely on communication." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375, no. 1789 (November 18, 2019): 20190046. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0046.

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Studies of animal communication are often assumed to provide the ‘royal road’ to understanding the evolution of human language. After all, language is the pre-eminent system of human communication: doesn't it make sense to search for its precursors in animal communication systems? From this viewpoint, if some characteristic feature of human language is lacking in systems of animal communication, it represents a crucial gap in evolution, and evidence for an evolutionary discontinuity. Here I argue that we should reverse this logic: because a defining feature of human language is its ability to flexibly represent and recombine concepts, precursors for many important components of language should be sought in animal cognition rather than animal communication. Animal communication systems typically only permit expression of a small subset of the concepts that can be represented and manipulated by that species. Thus, if a particular concept is not expressed in a species' communication system this is not evidence that it lacks that concept. I conclude that if we focus exclusively on communicative signals, we sell the comparative analysis of language evolution short. Therefore, animal cognition provides a crucial (and often neglected) source of evidence regarding the biology and evolution of human language. This article is part of the theme issue ‘What can animal communication teach us about human language?’

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Broglio, Ron. "`Living Flesh': Animal—Human Surfaces." Journal of Visual Culture 7, no. 1 (April 2008): 103–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470412907084505.

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Moore, Richard. "Convergent minds: ostension, inference and Grice's third clause." Interface Focus 7, no. 3 (April 21, 2017): 20160107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0107.

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A prevailing view is that while human communication has an ‘ostensive-inferential’ or ‘Gricean’ intentional structure, animal communication does not. This would make the psychological states that support human and animal forms of communication fundamentally different. Against this view, I argue that there are grounds to expect ostensive communication in non-human clades. This is because it is sufficient for ostensive communication that one intentionally addresses one's utterance to one's intended interlocutor—something that is both a functional pre-requisite of successful communication and cognitively undemanding. Furthermore, while ostension is an important feature of intentional communication, the inferences required in Gricean communication may be minimal: ostension and inference may come apart. The grounds for holding that animal communication could not be Gricean are therefore weak. I finish by defending the idea that a ‘minimally Gricean’ model of communication is a valuable tool for characterizing the communicative interactions of many animal species.

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Ryan, Michael J., Nicole M. Kime, and Gil G. Rosenthal. "Patterns of evolution in human speech processing and animal communication." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21, no. 2 (April 1998): 282–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x98481172.

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We consider Sussman et al.'s suggestion that auditory biases for processing low-noise relationships among pairs of acoustic variables is a preadaptation for human speech processing. Data from other animal communication systems, especially those involving sexual selection, also suggest that neural biases in the receiver system can generate strong selection on the form of communication signals.

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Pika, Simone, Ray Wilkinson, Kobin H. Kendrick, and Sonja C. Vernes. "Taking turns: bridging the gap between human and animal communication." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, no. 1880 (June 6, 2018): 20180598. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0598.

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Language, humans’ most distinctive trait, still remains a ‘mystery’ for evolutionary theory. It is underpinned by a universal infrastructure—cooperative turn-taking—which has been suggested as an ancient mechanism bridging the existing gap between the articulate human species and their inarticulate primate cousins. However, we know remarkably little about turn-taking systems of non-human animals, and methodological confounds have often prevented meaningful cross-species comparisons. Thus, the extent to which cooperative turn-taking is uniquely human or represents a homologous and/or analogous trait is currently unknown. The present paper draws attention to this promising research avenue by providing an overview of the state of the art of turn-taking in four animal taxa—birds, mammals, insects and anurans. It concludes with a new comparative framework to spur more research into this research domain and to test which elements of the human turn-taking system are shared across species and taxa.

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Tüür, Kadri. "Bird sounds in nature writing: Human perspective on animal communication." Sign Systems Studies 37, no. 3/4 (December 1, 2009): 580–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2009.37.3-4.11.

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The object of study in the present article is birds, more precisely the sounds of birds as they are represented in Estonian nature writing. The evolutionary and structural parallels of bird song with human language are reviewed. Human interpretation of bird sounds raises the question, whether it is possible to transmit or “translate” signals between the Umwelts of different species. The intentions of the sender of the signal may remain unknown, but the signification process within human Umwelt can still be traced and analysed. By approaching the excerpts of nature writing using semiotic methodology, I attempt to demonstrate how bird sounds can function as different types of signs, as outlined by Thomas A. Sebeok. It is argued that the zoosemiotic treatment of nature writing opens up a number of interesting perspectives that would otherwise remain beyond the scope of traditional literary analysis.

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Belov, Mikael. "Animal Communication: From Human to Monkey, from Insect to Systematics." Sociology of Power 35, no. 2 (2023): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2023-2-119-138.

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Suzuki, Toshitaka N., David Wheatcroft, and Michael Griesser. "The syntax–semantics interface in animal vocal communication." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375, no. 1789 (November 18, 2019): 20180405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0405.

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Syntax (rules for combining words or elements) and semantics (meaning of expressions) are two pivotal features of human language, and interaction between them allows us to generate a limitless number of meaningful expressions. While both features were traditionally thought to be unique to human language, research over the past four decades has revealed intriguing parallels in animal communication systems. Many birds and mammals produce specific calls with distinct meanings, and some species combine multiple meaningful calls into syntactically ordered sequences. However, it remains largely unclear whether, like phrases or sentences in human language, the meaning of these call sequences depends on both the meanings of the component calls and their syntactic order. Here, leveraging recently demonstrated examples of meaningful call combinations, we introduce a framework for exploring the interaction between syntax and semantics (i.e. the syntax-semantic interface) in animal vocal sequences. We outline methods to test the cognitive mechanisms underlying the production and perception of animal vocal sequences and suggest potential evolutionary scenarios for syntactic communication. We hope that this review will stimulate phenomenological studies on animal vocal sequences as well as experimental studies on the cognitive processes, which promise to provide further insights into the evolution of language. This article is part of the theme issue ‘What can animal communication teach us about human language?’

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Zuberbühler, Klaus. "Syntax and compositionality in animal communication." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375, no. 1789 (November 18, 2019): 20190062. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0062.

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Syntax has been found in animal communication but only humans appear to have generative, hierarchically structured syntax. How did syntax evolve? I discuss three theories of evolutionary transition from animal to human syntax: computational capacity, structural flexibility and event perception. The computation hypothesis is supported by artificial grammar experiments consistently showing that only humans can learn linear stimulus sequences with an underlying hierarchical structure, a possible by-product of computationally powerful large brains. The structural flexibility hypothesis is supported by evidence of meaning-bearing combinatorial and permutational signal sequences in animals, with sometimes compositional features, but no evidence for generativity or hierarchical structure. Again, animals may be constrained by computational limits in short-term memory but possibly also by limits in articulatory control and social cognition. The event categorization hypothesis, finally, posits that humans are cognitively predisposed to analyse natural events by assigning agency and assessing how agents impact on patients, a propensity that is reflected by the basic syntactic units in all languages. Whether animals perceive natural events in the same way is largely unknown, although event perception may provide the cognitive grounding for syntax evolution. This article is part of the theme issue ‘What can animal communication teach us about human language?’

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Pouw, Wim, Shannon Proksch, Linda Drijvers, Marco Gamba, Judith Holler, Christopher Kello, Rebecca S. Schaefer, and Geraint A. Wiggins. "Multilevel rhythms in multimodal communication." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376, no. 1835 (August 23, 2021): 20200334. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0334.

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It is now widely accepted that the brunt of animal communication is conducted via several modalities, e.g. acoustic and visual, either simultaneously or sequentially. This is a laudable multimodal turn relative to traditional accounts of temporal aspects of animal communication which have focused on a single modality at a time. However, the fields that are currently contributing to the study of multimodal communication are highly varied, and still largely disconnected given their sole focus on a particular level of description or their particular concern with human or non-human animals. Here, we provide an integrative overview of converging findings that show how multimodal processes occurring at neural, bodily, as well as social interactional levels each contribute uniquely to the complex rhythms that characterize communication in human and non-human animals. Though we address findings for each of these levels independently, we conclude that the most important challenge in this field is to identify how processes at these different levels connect. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology’.

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Telkänranta, Helena. "Conditioning or cognition? Understanding interspecific communication as a way of improving animal training (a case study with elephants in Nepal)." Sign Systems Studies 37, no. 3/4 (December 1, 2009): 542–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2009.37.3-4.09.

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When animals are trained to function in a human society (for example, pet dogs, police dogs, or sports horses), different trainers and training cultures vary widely in their ability to understand how the animal perceives the communication efforts of the trainer. This variation has considerable impact on the resulting performance and welfare of the animals. There are many trainers who frequently resort to physical punishment or other pain-inflicting methods when the attempts to communicate have failed or when the trainer is unaware of the full range of the potential forms of human-animal communication. Negative consequences of this include animal suffering, imperfect performance of the animals, and sometimes risks to humans, as repeated pain increases aggression in some animals. The field of animal training is also interesting from a semiotic point of view, as it effectively illustrates the differences between the distinct forms of interaction that are included in the concept of communication in the zoosemiotic discourse. The distinctions with the largest potential in improving human-animal communication in animal training, is understanding the difference between verbal communication of the kind that requires rather high cognitive capabilities of the animal, and communication based on conditioning, which is a form of animal learning that does not require high cognitive ability. The differences and potentials of various types of human-animal communication are discussed in the form of a case study of a novel project run by a NGO called Working Elephant Programme of Asia (WEPA), which introduces humane, science-based training and handling methods as an alternative to the widespread use of pain and fear that is the basis of most existing elephant training methods.

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Bringsjord, Selmer, and Elizabeth Bringsjord. "Animal communication of private states does not illuminate the human case." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16, no. 4 (December 1993): 645–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00032088.

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Kwok, Sinead. "The human-animal divide in communication: anthropocentric, posthuman and integrationist answers." Language & Communication 74 (September 2020): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2020.06.005.

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Tierney, David. "“The Poetry of a Dingo’s Bite”." Extrapolation 65, no. 1 (April 14, 2024): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2024.3.

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Science fiction has an extensive history of attempting to breach the communication boundary between humans and nonhuman animals by giving nonhuman animals some semblance of human language, with many uplift stories having them speak near-perfect English, their minds being filtered through a human linguistic framework, partly or wholly erasing their voice. Building on the examination of nonhuman animal gestural communication in Brian Massumi’s What Animals Teach Us about Politics (2014), this paper analyses how two works, Ursula K. Le Guin’s “‘The Author of the Acacia Seeds’ and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics” (1974) and Laura Jean McKay’s The Animals in That Country (2020) depict animal behavior in itself as being creative and language-like. Neither story offers a straightforward translation from nonhuman to human, each showing how human linguistic frameworks leave gaps for the untranslatable complexities in nonhuman animal gestures. This I suggest shows that further exploration of nonhuman animal communication in science fiction can allow us to move beyond ideas of human exceptionalism and logocentrism and can turn the hierarchical scale of communication into more of a spectrum with various communication types.

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TRIVEDI, ROHIT H., and THORSTEN TEICHERT. "Consumer Reactions to Animal And Human Models in Print Ads." Journal of Advertising Research 60, no. 4 (January 29, 2020): 426–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2501/jar-2020-002.

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HURFORD, JAMES R. "Human uniqueness, learned symbols and recursive thought." European Review 12, no. 4 (October 2004): 551–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106279870400047x.

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Human language is qualitatively different from animal communication systems in at least two separate ways. Human languages contain tens of thousands of arbitrary learned symbols (mainly words). No other animal communication system involves learning the component symbolic elements afresh in each individual's lifetime, and certainly not in such vast numbers. Human language also has complex compositional syntax. The meanings of our sentences are composed from the meanings of the constituent parts (e.g. the words). This is obvious to us, but no other animal communication system (with honeybees as an odd but distracting exception) puts messages together in this way. A recent theoretical claim that the sole distinguishing feature of human language is recursion is discussed, and related to these features of learned symbols and compositional syntax. It is argued that recursive thought could have existed in prelinguistic hominids, and that the key step to language was the innovative disposition to learn massive numbers of arbitrary symbols

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Dolník, Juraj. "Communication Formations." Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis 67, no. 3 (December 1, 2016): 195–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0007.

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Abstract This paper is intended to be a contribution to research of communication formations that are shaped by systematic communication. The approach of the author is based on the idea that the human being has a gift for making signs and people make use of this property if they are adapting to a situation of recurrent coexistence. This property enables the participants of such a situation to create social signs with the structure sociolect as the form of the sign: the semantic interpretation of this form as the meaning of the sign. One way of analysing this meaning is by looking at the foundation of the motivation of animal and human behaviour. The author argues that this meaning is based on a feeling of safety and the participants of potential communication formations follow the principle of coordination in order to sustain this feeling and to introduce the state of communication comfort.

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Meighoo, Sean. "Human Language, Animal Code, and the Question of Beeing." Humanimalia 8, no. 2 (March 20, 2017): 27–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9629.

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In this paper, I want to question the distinction between the human capacity for language on one hand and various forms of communication among nonhuman animals on the other by talking about bees. More specifically, I am interested in the discussion of the honey bee’s “dance language” in the work of two key figures in structuralist theory, the Syrian-born French linguist Émile Benveniste and the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. In the first part of my paper, I present a close reading of some selected texts by Benveniste and Lacan in which they critically assess the Austrian zoologist and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch’s research on communication among honey bees. In the second part of my paper, I compare Benveniste and Lacan’s discussion of the honey bee’s “dance language” to the German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s discussion of the bee in relation to his work on language and the question of being. I argue that in contrast to Heidegger’s humanist discourse, Benveniste and Lacan’s antihumanist discourse only offers a new form of humanism itself – a post-Darwinian humanism that is not hindered at all by any biological theory of natural selection or evolution.

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Parikh, Devi, Adriana Kovashka, Amar Parkash, and Kristen Grauman. "Relative Attributes for Enhanced Human-Machine Communication." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 26, no. 1 (September 20, 2021): 2153–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v26i1.8443.

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We propose to model relative attributes that capture the relationships between images and objects in terms of human-nameable visual properties. For example, the models can capture that animal A is 'furrier' than animal B, or image X is 'brighter' than image B. Given training data stating how object/scene categories relate according to different attributes, we learn a ranking function per attribute. The learned ranking functions predict the relative strength of each property in novel images. We show how these relative attribute predictions enable a variety of novel applications, including zero-shot learning from relative comparisons, automatic image description, image search with interactive feedback, and active learning of discriminative classifiers. We overview results demonstrating these applications with images of faces and natural scenes. Overall, we find that relative attributes enhance the precision of communication between humans and computer vision algorithms, providing the richer language needed to fluidly "teach" a system about visual concepts.

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Bernal-Bayard, Joaquín, and Francisco Ramos-Morales. "Special Issue: Type III Secretion Systems in Human/Animal Pathogenic Bacteria." Microorganisms 10, no. 7 (July 20, 2022): 1461. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10071461.

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Chernigovskaya, Tatiana V. "Biology, environment, and culture: From animal communication to human language and cognition." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 36, no. 1 (2020): 157–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2020.113.

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Davis, R. O. "Digital signal processing in studies of animal acoustical communication, including human speech." Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 23, no. 3 (December 1986): 171–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-2607(86)90050-7.

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Lestel, Dominique. "How Chimpanzees Have Domesticated Humans: Towards an Anthropology of Human-Animal Communication." Anthropology Today 14, no. 3 (June 1998): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2783050.

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Leatherland, Douglas. "The Capacities and Limitations of Language in Animal Fantasies." Humanimalia 11, no. 2 (March 20, 2020): 101–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9455.

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Drawing on the field of zoosemiotics, this paper explores the representation of language and other forms of communication in animal fantasy fiction, citing Richard Adams’s Watership Down (1972) as a key example of a text which depicts a wide spectrum of communication channels. Zoosemiotics provides a useful lens through which to conceptualize the spectrum of animal communication depicted in Adams’s novel and other notable texts, such as the short stories of Franz Kafka and Ursula Le Guin’s “Author of the Acacia Seeds” (1974). While examples of animal languages in such fiction seem more anthropomorphic than examples of sensory, non-vocal forms of communication, fictional languages such as Lapine actually reveal the limitations of human language as well as the conceptual abilities of nonhuman animals. The texts discussed in this paper attempt to imagine how the ways in which nonhuman animals communicate might be understood, or translated, in human language terms.

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Collier, Katie, Andrew N. Radford, Sabine Stoll, Stuart K. Watson, Marta B. Manser, Balthasar Bickel, and Simon W. Townsend. "Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, no. 1935 (September 23, 2020): 20192514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2514.

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Communication plays a vital role in the social lives of many species and varies greatly in complexity. One possible way to increase communicative complexity is by combining signals into longer sequences, which has been proposed as a mechanism allowing species with a limited repertoire to increase their communicative output. In mammals, most studies on combinatoriality have focused on vocal communication in non-human primates. Here, we investigated a potential combination of alarm calls in the dwarf mongoose ( Helogale parvula ), a non-primate mammal. Acoustic analyses and playback experiments with a wild population suggest: (i) that dwarf mongooses produce a complex call type (T 3 ) which, at least at the surface level, seems to comprise units that are not functionally different to two meaningful alarm calls (aerial and terrestrial); and (ii) that this T 3 call functions as a general alarm, produced in response to a wide range of threats. Using a novel approach, we further explored multiple interpretations of the T 3 call based on the information content of the apparent comprising calls and how they are combined. We also considered an alternative, non-combinatorial interpretation that frames T 3 as the origin, rather than the product, of the individual alarm calls. This study complements previous knowledge of vocal combinatoriality in non-primate mammals and introduces an approach that could facilitate comparisons between different animal and human communication systems.

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Jaber, Aziz, Osama Omari, and Mujdey Abudalbuh. "Reflections on Protolanguage: Evidence from Studies on Animal Communication." Journal of Educational and Social Research 11, no. 1 (January 17, 2021): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2021-0012.

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The paper is a critique of the existence of protolanguage based on some personal reasoning given the findings of previous research. This paper focuses on the nature of semantic compositionality and its existence (and therefore manifestations) in animal communication systems as evidence of the existence of protolanguage. This compositional state that started to color human language has paved the way to hierarchical syntax and thus has helped in the emergence of a recursive, fully complex language. On the other hand, non-human animal communication systems, including those examined in this paper, have not managed to progress beyond the holophrastic state, and thus remained highly confined and unproductive. This is explicated by the observation that these systems do not employ discrete meaningful units that can be used recursively in different linguistic contexts, a necessary condition for a system of communication to be compositional. This is interesting in the study of language evolution as it could suggest that human language could not have evolved from a rudimentary, intermediate stage called protolanguage. Speculating about the existence of protolanguage subsumes convergent evolution (e.g. songbirds). The lack of semantic compositionality in non-human communication system suggests that convergent evolution is hard to prove, which puts the existence of protolanguage on the line. This thesis is, however, far from being established and requires a lot of further research to prove its validity. Received: 21 September 2020 / Accepted: 3 November 2020 / Published: 17 January 2021

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Snowdon, Charles T. "Animal Signals, Music and Emotional Well-Being." Animals 11, no. 9 (September 11, 2021): 2670. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11092670.

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Playing music or natural sounds to animals in human care is thought to have beneficial effects. An analysis of published papers on the use of human-based music with animals demonstrates a variety of different results even within the same species. These mixed results suggest the value of tailoring music to the sensory systems of the species involved and in selecting musical structures that are likely to produce the desired effects. I provide a conceptual framework based on the combined knowledge of the natural communication system of a species coupled with musical structures known to differentially influence emotional states, e.g., calming an agitated animal versus stimulating a lethargic animal. This new concept of animal-based music, which is based on understanding animal communication, will lead to more consistent and specific effects of music. Knowledge and appropriate use of animal-based music are important in future research and applications if we are to improve the well-being of animals that are dependent upon human care for their survival.

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Semple, Stuart, Minna J. Hsu, and Govindasamy Agoramoorthy. "Efficiency of coding in macaque vocal communication." Biology Letters 6, no. 4 (January 27, 2010): 469–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.1062.

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A key characteristic of human language efficiency is that more frequently used words tend to be shorter in length—the ‘law of brevity’. To date, no test of this relationship between frequency of use and length has been carried out on non-human animal vocal communication. We show here that the vocal repertoire of the Formosan macaque ( Macaca cyclopis ) conforms to the pattern predicted by the law of brevity, with an inverse relationship found between call duration and rate of utterance. This finding provides evidence for coding efficiency in the vocal communication system of this species, and indicates commonality in the basic structure of the coding system between human language and vocal communication in this non-human primate.

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Levinson, Stephen C., and Judith Holler. "The origin of human multi-modal communication." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369, no. 1651 (September 19, 2014): 20130302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0302.

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One reason for the apparent gulf between animal and human communication systems is that the focus has been on the presence or the absence of language as a complex expressive system built on speech. But language normally occurs embedded within an interactional exchange of multi-modal signals. If this larger perspective takes central focus, then it becomes apparent that human communication has a layered structure, where the layers may be plausibly assigned different phylogenetic and evolutionary origins—especially in the light of recent thoughts on the emergence of voluntary breathing and spoken language. This perspective helps us to appreciate the different roles that the different modalities play in human communication, as well as how they function as one integrated system despite their different roles and origins. It also offers possibilities for reconciling the ‘gesture-first hypothesis’ with that of gesture and speech having evolved together, hand in hand—or hand in mouth, rather—as one system.

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Brisini, Travis. "The mystical and the mundane: the human/animal distinction in Animal Parade." Text and Performance Quarterly 39, no. 2 (March 26, 2019): 173–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2019.1595120.

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Gethmann, Daniel. "Levels of communication: The talking horse experiments." Science in Context 33, no. 4 (December 2020): 473–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889721000156.

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ArgumentIn the early twentieth century, counting and speaking horses, like the famous Clever Hans or the “Horses of Elberfeld,” became widely debated subjects in experimental psychology. The idea was to determine whether their learning success was only a fraud, or if it might open up a new chapter in “animal psychology” - or even belong to the realm of parapsychology and telepathy. When their tricks were discovered, the teachers of the animals were marked as charlatans. Both the attempts to detect charlatans and the efforts to avoid this accusation during the talking horse experiments proceeded using the method of introducing new levels of communication into the human-animal interaction process in order to substantiate each respective standpoint. This paper argues that the scientific studies and debates on the talking horses are relevant not only from psychological, biological, and semiotic vantage points, but also from the perspective of communications theory, giving rise to the foundational issue of levels of communication.

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Wong, B. B. M. "Animal communication in a human-dominated world: a comment on Radford et al." Behavioral Ecology 25, no. 5 (August 20, 2014): 1033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru139.

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Wierzbicka, Anna. "Conceptual primes in human languages and their analogues in animal communication and cognition." Language Sciences 26, no. 5 (September 2004): 413–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2003.08.004.

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Green, Patrick A., Nicholas C. Brandley, and Stephen Nowicki. "Categorical perception in animal communication and decision-making." Behavioral Ecology 31, no. 4 (February 18, 2020): 859–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa004.

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Abstract The information an animal gathers from its environment, including that associated with signals, often varies continuously. Animals may respond to this continuous variation in a physical stimulus as lying in discrete categories rather than along a continuum, a phenomenon known as categorical perception. Categorical perception was first described in the context of speech and thought to be uniquely associated with human language. Subsequent work has since discovered that categorical perception functions in communication and decision-making across animal taxa, behavioral contexts, and sensory modalities. We begin with an overview of how categorical perception functions in speech perception and, then, describe subsequent work illustrating its role in nonhuman animal communication and decision-making. We synthesize this work to suggest that categorical perception may be favored where there is a benefit to 1) setting consistent behavioral response rules in the face of variation and potential overlap in the physical structure of signals, 2) especially rapid decision-making, or 3) reducing the costs associated with processing and/or comparing signals. We conclude by suggesting other systems in which categorical perception may play a role as a next step toward understanding how this phenomenon may influence our thinking about the function and evolution of animal communication and decision-making.

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Swan, Susan Z. "Gothic drama in Disney'sbeauty and the beast:Subverting traditional romance by transcending the animal‐human paradox." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 16, no. 3 (September 1999): 350–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15295039909367100.

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Lubinski, David, and Travis Thompson. "Species and individual differences in communication based on private states." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16, no. 4 (December 1993): 627–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00032039.

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AbstractThe way people come to report private stimulation (e.g., feeling states) arising within their own bodies is not well understood. Although the Darwinian assumption of biological continuity has been the basis of extensive animal modeling for many human biological and behavioral phenomena, few have attempted to model human communication based on private stimulation. This target article discusses such an animal model using concepts and methods derived from the study of discriminative stimulus effects of drugs and recent research on interanimal communication. We discuss how humans acquire the capacity to identify and report private stimulation and we analyze intra- and interspecies differences in neurochemical mechanisms for transducing interoceptive stimuli, enzymatic and other metabolic factors, learning ability, and discrimination learning histories and their relation to psychiatric and developmental disabilities.

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Rabinowitz, Peter M., Matthew L. Scotch, and Lisa A. Conti. "Animals as Sentinels: Using Comparative Medicine To Move Beyond the Laboratory." ILAR Journal 51, no. 3 (January 1, 2010): 262–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ilar.51.3.262.

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Abstract The comparative medicine approach, as applied to the study of laboratory animals for the betterment of human health, has resulted in important medical and scientific progress. Much of what is known about the human health risks of many toxic and infectious hazards present in the environment derives from experimental studies in animals and observational (epidemiological) studies of exposed human populations. Yet there is a third source of “in vivo” knowledge about host-environment interactions that may be underused and -explored: the study of diseases in naturally occurring animal populations that may signal potential human health threats. Just as canaries warned coal miners of the risk of toxic gases, other nonhuman animals, due to their greater susceptibility, environmental exposure, or shorter life span, may serve as “sentinels” for human environmental health hazards. Traditionally, communication between human and animal health professionals about cross-species sentinel events has been limited, but progress in comparative genomics, animal epidemiology, and bioinformatics can now provide an enhanced forum for such communication. The “One Health” concept involves moving toward a comparative clinical approach that considers “shared risks” between humans and animals and promotes greater cooperation and collaboration between human and animal health professionals to identify and reduce such risks. In doing so, it also creates new opportunities for the field of comparative medicine that can supplement traditional laboratory animal research.

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Bodin, Clémentine, and Pascal Belin. "Exploring the cerebral substrate of voice perception in primate brains." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375, no. 1789 (November 18, 2019): 20180386. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0386.

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One can consider human language to be the Swiss army knife of the vast domain of animal communication. There is now growing evidence suggesting that this technology may have emerged from already operational material instead of being a sudden innovation. Sharing ideas and thoughts with conspecifics via language constitutes an amazing ability, but what value would it hold if our conspecifics were not first detected and recognized? Conspecific voice (CV) perception is fundamental to communication and widely shared across the animal kingdom. Two questions that arise then are: is this apparently shared ability reflected in common cerebral substrate? And, how has this substrate evolved? The paper addresses these questions by examining studies on the cerebral basis of CV perception in humans' closest relatives, non-human primates. Neuroimaging studies, in particular, suggest the existence of a ‘voice patch system’, a network of interconnected cortical areas that can provide a common template for the cerebral processing of CV in primates. This article is part of the theme issue ‘What can animal communication teach us about human language?’

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Zabawa, Krystyna. "„…czy ona to zrozumie?” — język, komunikacja międzyludzka i międzygatunko‑ wa w powieści Barbary Gawryluk pt. Czarna, Klifka i tajemnice z dna morza." Paidia i Literatura, no. 3 (December 31, 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/pil.2021.03.15.

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In this article, Krystyna Zabawa analyses Barbara Gawryluk’s novel for older children Czarna, Klifka i tajemnice z dna morza [Czarna, Klifka and the secrets from the seabed] from the perspective of the commentaries this novel makes on language issues and on aspects of interpersonal as well as interspecies communication. Zabawa identifies the ways in which the novel presents foreign languages (Swedish and English) and how it encourages young readers to learn them. Zabawa interprets Gawryluk’s novel a text about communication problems and about the conditions necessary for mutual understanding among people. She also analyses passages in the novel that address human-animal and animal-animal communication.

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Vigors, Belinda. "Citizens’ and Farmers’ Framing of ‘Positive Animal Welfare’ and the Implications for Framing Positive Welfare in Communication." Animals 9, no. 4 (April 4, 2019): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani9040147.

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Human perception can depend on how an individual frames information in thought and how information is framed in communication. For example, framing something positively, instead of negatively, can change an individual’s response. This is of relevance to ‘positive animal welfare’, which places greater emphasis on farm animals being provided with opportunities for positive experiences. However, little is known about how this framing of animal welfare may influence the perception of key animal welfare stakeholders. Through a qualitative interview study with farmers and citizens, undertaken in Scotland, UK, this paper explores what positive animal welfare evokes to these key welfare stakeholders and highlights the implications of such internal frames for effectively communicating positive welfare in society. Results indicate that citizens make sense of positive welfare by contrasting positive and negative aspects of welfare, and thus frame it as animals having ‘positive experiences’ or being ‘free from negative experiences’. Farmers draw from their existing frames of animal welfare to frame positive welfare as ‘good husbandry’, ‘proactive welfare improvement’ or the ‘animal’s point of view’. Implications of such internal frames (e.g., the triggering of ‘negative welfare’ associations by the word ‘positive’) for the effective communication of positive welfare are also presented.

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Graham, Kirsty E., Claudia Wilke, Nicole J. Lahiff, and Katie E. Slocombe. "Scratching beneath the surface: intentionality in great ape signal production." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375, no. 1789 (November 18, 2019): 20180403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0403.

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Despite important similarities having been found between human and animal communication systems, surprisingly little research effort has focussed on whether the cognitive mechanisms underpinning these behaviours are also similar. In particular, it is highly debated whether signal production is the result of reflexive processes, or can be characterized as intentional. Here, we critically evaluate the criteria that are used to identify signals produced with different degrees of intentionality, and discuss recent attempts to apply these criteria to the vocal, gestural and multimodal communicative signals of great apes and more distantly related species. Finally, we outline the necessary research tools, such as physiologically validated measures of arousal, and empirical evidence that we believe would propel this debate forward and help unravel the evolutionary origins of human intentional communication. This article is part of the theme issue ‘What can animal communication teach us about human language?’

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BRIDGMAN, ROGER, CHARLES R. ROSSI, and MANUEL CAMPOS. "SHORT COMMUNICATION: The Sensitivity of Domestic Animal Cell Lines to Eight Recombinant Human Interferons." Journal of Interferon Research 8, no. 1 (February 1988): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jir.1988.8.1.

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