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Silent3

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12. They're demonstrating more sophisticated recognition...

Reply to Odin2005 (Reply #9)

Mon Apr 16, 2012, 01:09 PM

Apr 2012

...than reflexively responding to a shape, like figuring out, when confronted with a novel word, what's likely to be a real word from their experience with other real words.

Are you generally skeptical about animal language skills, and if so, why? I think some impressive results have come out of not only primate research, but even work with parrots.

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