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That raises the central point, the one we need to understand if we are to figure out what it means to be human: Under what conditions are communicators encouraged to shift from the nonsyntactic communication of animals to the syntactic communication used by humans?
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Most animals use nonsyntactic communication, so that a single grunt—a “word”—might be used to express a scenario, such as “watch out—there’s a lion prowling nearby.”
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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He further comments, "The degree to which a semantic net (or any unambiguous nonsyntactic representation) is cumbersome and odd-sounding in a natural language is the degree to which that language is
Fedora People 2009
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