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The problem of the degree of complexity and semantic capabilities of the acoustic communicative system in bottlenose dolphins has been under discussion for over a quarter of a century, ever since John Lilly published his book “Man and Dolphin” (Lilly, 1962). Nowadays, there is an abundance of literature, with different viewpoints, but no consensus has been reached so far among researchers. The problem proved to be very complicated, both methodologically and experimentally, while the methods used turned-out to be labor-consuming and, on the whole, inefficient; all kinds of straightforward attacks failed. Meanwhile, one can try and assess potential capabilities of communicative system by analysing dolphins’ mechanisms ensuring its productivity, i.e. the creation of signals and messages in amounts nessesary for communication. These mechanisms ensure the encoding of information and, in accordance with the theory, their functioning, in this way or other, affects the structure of signals and their sequences, in other words, it affects the organization of communicative system.
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Markov, V.I., Ostrovskaya, V.M. (1990). Organization of Communication System in Tursiops Truncatus Montagu. In: Thomas, J.A., Kastelein, R.A. (eds) Sensory Abilities of Cetaceans. NATO ASI Series, vol 196. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0858-2_42
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