J. De Visser
2009
Simple rules can explain discrimination of putative recursive syntactic structures by a songbird speciesdoi.orgPDF
PNAS 106(48):20538--20543, 2009
Abstract According to a controversial hypothesis, a characteristic unique to human language is recursion. Contradicting this hypothesis, it has been claimed that the starling, one of the two animal species tested for this ability to date, is able to distinguish acoustic stimuli ...MORE ⇓
Abstract According to a controversial hypothesis, a characteristic unique to human language is recursion. Contradicting this hypothesis, it has been claimed that the starling, one of the two animal species tested for this ability to date, is able to distinguish acoustic stimuli ...