[EDLING:1503] "Uniquely Human" Component of Language Found in Gregarious Birds

[Francis M. Hult]

Newswise

"Uniquely Human" Component of Language Found in Gregarious Birds

Linguists have argued that certain patterns of language organization are the 
exclusive province of humans. These syntactical capacities have been used to 
define the boundaries between humans and other creatures. Now researchers have 
discovered the capacity to recognize such patterns in starlings. 

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