I appreciate your disclaimers and context of your sources.
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Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 3 months agoThey identified nouns and adjectives in prairie dog communication, that also seems to vary with regional dialects. I’ll try to remember to dig up a source when I’m not out and about later.
Murdeth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s cool as hell and animals definitely have all kinds of methods of communication that I’m sure we haven’t figured out yet - but it’s not language.
overcast5348@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Okay, I’ll bite.
Why isn’t it language? And how do you define that a method of communication qualifies to be called a language?
Also, what would you call a method of communication that lies somewhere in between “follow the pheromones” and “modern human comms”?
candybrie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s your definition of language?
tamal3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Weren’t science communicators talking about parts of speech in whale communication last year, too? They’re using AI to identify patterns and variations in speech.
Here’s a general (though older) overview of whale language: www.britannica.com/…/the-language-of-whales
Here’s a more recent article taking about using AI to identify patterns in speech: scitechdaily.com/ai-decodes-sperm-whale-language-…