Married life is more wonderful than I could have ever imagined. I don't know how I could have gotten so lucky to marry the man I did - he always puts a big smile on my face, and I feel more happy and content than I ever remember being. He always dazzles me with with his beautiful mind and soul - hopefully, he will always be happy in life.
From National Geographic: an article on monkeys and language: http://news.
It seemed that it was more about monkeys recognizing patterns in human speech, than with monkeys understanding or having the capacity to understand complex grammar. (Apologies if I butcher any linguistic concepts here), it also seems that the monkeys could recognize tokens based on pause given between words.
What would be a good experiment to determine if an animal could understand grammar? Maybe if the words were not random, but had context, and were only used in certain contexts? There was a study of a parrot, Alex, who could understand language to some extent, but they were unsuccessful in teaching him grammar concepts. It's an interesting question. Does a language have to have this kind of complex grammar to be considered and intelligent language? Do all languages have what the article calls complex grammar (verb tenses, word-order, etc.)? Why are pigeon and Creole not considered valid languages? Is this distinction really based on anything logical or scientific? I feel sometimes that it is not... but the article is interesting.
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