Female Diana Monkeys have Complex Calls
Camille Coye, Dunja Veselinovic, Agnès Candiotti, Philippe Schlenker, Alban Lemasson, Emmanuel Chemla
August 2024
 

We argue that female Diana monkeys (Cercopithecus diana) can form complex calls by combining an A-call with other elementary calls. We reject (on both empirical and conceptual grounds) a combination-free analysis based on accidental homophony, and we consider two main analyses: the Acoustic Theory takes the combination to be merely acoustic, whereas the Affixal Theory takes A to function as a suffix. We provide limited arguments for the Affixal Theory, and through comparison with another closely related monkey species, we date these combinations to at least 6 million years ago.
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keywords: animal linguistics; animal morphology; suffix; combinations, morphology
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