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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Public Library of Science (PLoS),
2020-11-30T17:15:33Z.
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