Supra-regular recursion in primate vocal sequences
Complex syntax is the widely accepted demarcation between animal and human communication. Although animal vocal systems occasionally contain pockets of syntax-like structures, their grammars are thought to be at best regular, whereas human language is supra-regular, i.e., including at least context-free computational complexity. Leveraging a new likelihood method for probabilistic formal…
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