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There are a number of interesting videos on social media sites ostensibly demonstrating dogs and birds using buttons and tablets to generate reasonably coherent
by Veserv 4y ago
There are a number of interesting videos on social media sites ostensibly demonstrating dogs and birds using buttons and tablets to generate reasonably coherent communication like might be expected out of a two year old. Some of these have some backing scientific literature that provide some validation of the claims. If true it would indicate they have quite advanced mental faculties and are basically entirely limited by the lack of a appropriate vocal system for generating human speech.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_(dog) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_(dog)
[2] https://youtube.com/@jenc2394 https://youtube.com/@jenc2394
- nborwankar 4y agoRigorous research on speech and communication in non-humans https://www.theycantalk.org/research https://www.theycantalk.org/research
- astrange 4y agoThose are less than "sentences" because word order doesn't matter and they're not recursive (so they can't go on forever).
- xyzzy_plugh 4y agoThis is overly pedantic. How many conversations with a two year old have you had? Word order does not matter, recursion doesn't matter (a two year old can make a sentence go on forever without recursion even)
- astrange 4y agoTwo year olds learn a lot more language in a year than chimps can. Can't have a sentence like "dog bites man" without word order even if it's made of logograms.