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Conceptual work on sequence structure, mammalian source-filter theory, and signal embedding in social networks provides a theoretical foundation for interpreting meaning in animal vocalizations.
“Conceptual work on sequence structure (Kershenbaum et al. 2016), mammalian source–filter theory (Taylor and Reby 2010), and signal embedding in social networks (Seyfarth and Cheney 2017; Snijders and Naguib 2017) provide a theoretical foundation.”
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- Authors
- Seyfarth, R. M., & Cheney, D. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Seyfarth, Robert M.
- Venue
- Animal Behaviour
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-02
- Volume
- 124
- Pages
- 339-346
- ISSN
- 0003-3472 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2471365090
- Cited by
- 116
- References
- 108
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 10.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Animal Behaviour (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Geographic Society
- Leakey Foundation
- Rockefeller University
- National Institutes of Health (MN 62249)
- National Science Foundation (IBN95-14001)
- University of Pennsylvania
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Keywords
- animal communication, pragmatic inference, social environment, primate vocal communication, composite signals, language evolution, syntax and semantics, social cognition
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