Sure, and I will grant you this is a little linguistics-adjacent, just like the other post I just made. “Linguistics” as a field is not just anything that is kind of about language, but emphasizing the continuity between other animals and their ability to communicate in something similar to, but distinct from the arbitrary and basically infinitely large ability that humans have to use language proper is pretty fascinating and important work.
This subject is still very welcome here, and I thank you for sharing this link! Sorry if my comment implied otherwise, that was not my goal.
emphasizing the continuity between other animals and their ability to communicate in something similar to [language]
Fully agree. In special, this is useful for people researching the origins of human language; before we had language, odds are that our communication was similar to what you see in other animals, specially other mammals. So any development on how they communicate might help us to understand how we bridged that gap between non-linguistic and linguistic communication.
Sure, and I will grant you this is a little linguistics-adjacent, just like the other post I just made. “Linguistics” as a field is not just anything that is kind of about language, but emphasizing the continuity between other animals and their ability to communicate in something similar to, but distinct from the arbitrary and basically infinitely large ability that humans have to use language proper is pretty fascinating and important work.
This subject is still very welcome here, and I thank you for sharing this link! Sorry if my comment implied otherwise, that was not my goal.
Fully agree. In special, this is useful for people researching the origins of human language; before we had language, odds are that our communication was similar to what you see in other animals, specially other mammals. So any development on how they communicate might help us to understand how we bridged that gap between non-linguistic and linguistic communication.