Birds found able to learn abstract grammatical structures
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 07:01
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with Leiden University in The Netherlands has found via experimentation that at least two types of birds are able to learn the rules that define abstract grammatical structures. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Michelle Spierings and Carel ten Cate describe experiments they carried out with two different species of song birds and what they found regarding their grammatical abilities.