> >Assuming some kind of intelligence of the order of
> >humans, basic literacy in the prevalent form of human communication
> >would be easily administered,
>
> One would hope that some form of spontaneous communication would
> arise, aking to human creole tongues perhaps.
This depends on whether language comes from an innate structure or from an
interaction of circuits for symbolic thinking and a vocal (or visual)
signal using social environment. Connectionism isn't quite as persuasive
nor as widely accepted as innateness, but it certainly has adherants.
Anyway, if it is a matter of a language module, we need to figure out how
to build one in an uplift-species' brain.
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