Temporal/parietal pathways

[jess tauber]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526140733.htm

If similar pathways exist in lower primates, can this imply that their vocalizations might sometimes be complex structurally?

As an elaboration of verb serialization, so-called bipartite constructions can include, in more productive systems such as in Yahgan, both pathway/position and manner/bodypart/instrument terms.

Something reminiscent of this (with opposite control) also appears to occur in the most elaborate ideophonic forms, as in Santali (Munda).

Are these systems 'maximal' in some sense? Do such strings involve a combination of processes from both pathways? Could some call systems in animals combine units in the same spirit?

Jess Tauber
phonosemantics at earthlink.net