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- Title
What birds have to say about language.
- Authors
Bloomfield, Tiffany C.; Gentner, Timothy Q.; Margoliash, Daniel
- Abstract
The article focuses on the study conducted by K. Abe and D. Watanabe which investigates the important aspect of Bengalese finches' language ability. The study employs a procedure called habituation process using songbird Bengalese finches which expose the finches to an artificial grammar. Result suggests that the grammatical strings which move the sensitivity of the songbird is an important motivation in human language recursive process and general syntactic ability as well.
- Subjects
SOCIETY finch; LANGUAGE ability testing; GRAMMAR; HABITUATION (Neuropsychology); SEMANTICS (Philosophy)
- Publication
Nature Neuroscience, 2011, Vol 14, Issue 8, p947
- ISSN
1097-6256
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nn.2884