Monkeys can form sentences and speak in accents—and now a new study shows that our genetic relatives can also recognize poor grammar. "We were really curious whether monkeys could even detect the common trend found in human language to add sounds to word edges, like adding 'ed' in English to create the past tense," said lead study author Ansgar Endress, a linguist at Harvard University. Too bad the same can't be said for the writers of some of the newspaper columns I have looked at lately!Mistakes are everywhere.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Monkeys Recognize Poor Grammar
Monkeys can form sentences and speak in accents—and now a new study shows that our genetic relatives can also recognize poor grammar. "We were really curious whether monkeys could even detect the common trend found in human language to add sounds to word edges, like adding 'ed' in English to create the past tense," said lead study author Ansgar Endress, a linguist at Harvard University. Too bad the same can't be said for the writers of some of the newspaper columns I have looked at lately!Mistakes are everywhere.
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