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posted by janrinok on Tuesday September 13 2016, @05:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the click-brzzzp-click dept.

Vyacheslav Ryabov claims to have recorded a conversation between two dolphins demonstrating the use of "words" and "sentences":

A conversation between dolphins may have been recorded by scientists for the first time, a Russian researcher claims. Two adult Black Sea bottlenose dolphins, named Yasha and Yana, didn't interrupt each other during an interaction taped by scientists and may have formed words and sentences with a series of pulses, Vyacheslav Ryabov says in a new paper. "Essentially, this exchange resembles a conversation between two people," Ryabov said.

[...] Using new recording techniques, Ryabov separated the individual "non coherent pulses" the two dolphins made and theorized each pulse was a word in the dolphins' language, while a collection of pulses is a sentence. "As this language exhibits all the design features present in the human spoken language, this indicates a high level of intelligence and consciousness in dolphins," he said in the paper, which was published in the St. Petersburg Polytechnical University Journal: Physics and Mathematics last month. "Their language can be ostensibly considered a high developed spoken language."

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In his paper, Ryabov calls for humans to create a device by which human beings can communicate with dolphins. "Humans must take the first step to establish relationships with the first intelligent inhabitants of the planet Earth by creating devices capable of overcoming the barriers that stand in the way of ... communications between dolphins and people," he said.

The study of acoustic signals and the supposed spoken language of the dolphins (open, DOI: 10.1016/j.spjpm.2016.08.004) (DX)


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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday September 13 2016, @10:36PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday September 13 2016, @10:36PM (#401496)

    Are there languages without articles?

    According to the World Atlas of Language Structures [wals.info], approximately 1 out of 3 known languages don't use articles. That includes most of the languages used in India (unsurprising, because Sanskrit didn't have them either), Russian, many Eastern European languages like Polish and Czech, some East Asian languages like Korean, a variety of southern African languages, many of the languages spoken in Indonesia, and many languages used by native peoples of South America.

    There are also many known languages that will leave out articles a lot of the time, like Japanese, where "the" is understood before a noun unless something else is specified.

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