Comment on Chimpanzees have diverse vocal sequences with ordered recombinatorial propertiesparentComments−ProjectArcturis4yAre they words or phonemes?−Finnucane4ySomewhere in between? It seems that individual sounds are perceived by the chimps as meaningful signals, and that the combined bigrams and trigrams have additional meanings. Not sure it can be analogized to human speech more specifically than that.
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Are they words or phonemes?
Somewhere in between? It seems that individual sounds are perceived by the chimps as meaningful signals, and that the combined bigrams and trigrams have additional meanings. Not sure it can be analogized to human speech more specifically than that.