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Monkeys Display Verbal Skills: Discovery News
dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/07/monkeys-verbal-skills.html, posted 2009 by peter in language msm science toread
Monkeys first became familiar with a certain pattern, such as "shoy-bi." During the test, the researchers would then suddenly vary that to "bi-shoy," turning what was once a suffix into a prefix. When this happened, the monkeys would turn their heads toward the individual playing back the recordings, a response previously determined to indicate their acknowledgement that the familiar sound ordering pattern had been violated.