Meaningful syntactic structure in songbird vocalizations?

The faculty of language is thought to be uniquely human. Recently, it has been claimed that songbirds are able to associate meaning with sound, comparable to the way that humans do. In human language, the meaning of expressions (semantics) is dependent on a mind-internal hierarchical structure (synt...

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Main Authors: Johan J Bolhuis, Gabriel J L Beckers, Marinus A C Huybregts, Robert C Berwick, Martin B H Everaert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6002252?pdf=render