Recursive Vocal Pattern Learning and Generalization in Starlings

• Main Author: Bloomfield, Tiffany Corinna
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest LLC 2012
• Subjects: Animals; Cognitive Psychology; Communication Strategies; Feedback (Response); Generative Grammar; Language Acquisition; Language Fluency; Pattern Recognition; Psycholinguistics

Among known communication systems, human language alone exhibits open-ended productivity of meaning. Interest in the psychological mechanisms supporting this ability, and their evolutionary origins, has resurged following the suggestion that the only uniquely human ability underlying language is a m...