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Unpeeling the layers of language: Bonobos and chimpanzees engage in cooperative turn-taking sequences.
Fröhlich, Marlen; Kuchenbuch, Paul; Müller, Gudrun; Fruth, Barbara; Furuichi, Takeshi; Wittig, Roman M; Pika, Simone.
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  • Fröhlich M; Humboldt Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany.
  • Kuchenbuch P; Humboldt Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany.
  • Müller G; Humboldt Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany.
  • Fruth B; Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
  • Furuichi T; Centre for Research and Conservation/KMDA, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Wittig RM; Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Pika S; Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Sci Rep ; 6: 25887, 2016 05 23.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27211477
Human language is a fundamentally cooperative enterprise, embodying fast-paced and extended social interactions. It has been suggested that it evolved as part of a larger adaptation of humans' species-unique forms of cooperation. Although our closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees, show general cooperative abilities, their communicative interactions seem to lack the cooperative nature of human conversation. Here, we revisited this claim by conducting the first systematic comparison of communicative interactions in mother-infant dyads living in two different communities of bonobos (LuiKotale, DRC; Wamba, DRC) and chimpanzees (Taï South, Côte d'Ivoire; Kanyawara, Uganda) in the wild. Focusing on the communicative function of joint-travel-initiation, we applied parameters of conversation analysis to gestural exchanges between mothers and infants. Results showed that communicative exchanges in both species resemble cooperative turn-taking sequences in human conversation. While bonobos consistently addressed the recipient via gaze before signal initiation and used so-called overlapping responses, chimpanzees engaged in more extended negotiations, involving frequent response waiting and gestural sequences. Our results thus strengthen the hypothesis that interactional intelligence paved the way to the cooperative endeavour of human language and suggest that social matrices highly impact upon communication styles.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Comunicación Animal / Pan troglodytes / Conducta Cooperativa / Pan paniscus Límite: Animals / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: Sci Rep Año: 2016 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Alemania Pais de publicación: Reino Unido
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Comunicación Animal / Pan troglodytes / Conducta Cooperativa / Pan paniscus Límite: Animals / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: Sci Rep Año: 2016 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Alemania Pais de publicación: Reino Unido