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Vocal turn-taking in a non-human primate is learned during ontogeny
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Conversational turn-taking is an integral part of language development, as it reflects a confluence of social factors that mitigate communication. Humans coordinate the timing of speech based on the behaviour of another speaker, a behaviour that is learned during infancy. While adults in several primate species engage in vocal turn-taking, the degree to which similar learning processes underlie its development in these non-human species or are unique to language is not clear. We recorded the natural vocal interactions of common marmosets ( Callithrix jacchus ) occurring with both their sibling twins and parents over the first year of life and observed at least two parallels with language development. First, marmoset turn-taking is a learned vocal behaviour. Second, marmoset parents potentially played a direct role in guiding the development of turn-taking by providing feedback to their offspring when errors occurred during vocal interactions similarly to what has been observed in humans. Though species-differences are also evident, these findings suggest that similar learning mechanisms may be implemented in the ontogeny of vocal turn-taking across our Order, a finding that has important implications for our understanding of language evolution.
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“It has been shown (in humans [45] and non-human primates [31]) that turntaking appears earlier than language skills in ontogeny and is learned through parental guidance.”
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- Authors
- Chow, C. P., Mitchell, J. F., & Miller, C. T.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Corresponding author
- Miller, Cory T.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2015-05-22
- Volume
- 282
- Issue
- 1807
- Pages
- 20150069
- ISSN
- 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
- 0962-8452
- 1471-2954
- PMC
- PMC4424641
- OpenAlex
- W2126055092
- Cited by
- 131
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 4
- FWCI
- 14.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R21MH104756)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC012087)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Keywords
- vocal turn-taking, Callithrix jacchus, ontogeny, vocal learning, social feedback, language evolution, primate vocal communication
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Animal Communication, Callithrix, Cooperative Behavior, Female, Learning, Male, Vocalization, Animal
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