Vocal imitation is a key part of how humans learn to speak. New research shows that bats babble to learn and use baby talk to teach, just like people do.
Baboons make sounds, but how does it relate to human speech?
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Researchers say it’s time to finally discard a decades-old theory about the origins of human language – and revise the date when human ancestors likely were able to make certain speech noises.
Nisarg Desai observes wild chimps known as Sandi, Ferdinand and Siri in Tanzania.
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Do chimpanzee talk to each other? Scientists follow and record chimpanzees in the wild to find out – and to fill in details about how human language might have evolved.
We use different grammar when speaking or writing, but the difference is so subtle that linguists were blind to it for centuries.
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