At least some birds can learn a pattern once proposed as unique to the grammars of human languages, say researchers.
RATTLE, WARBLE, RATTLE. Starlings can make a wide variety of sounds. A test now suggests that they can learn a basic principle of grammar. D. Baleckaitis
Starlings trained in a lab have learned to distinguish between sounds strung together like a laundry list and those with nested, or recursive, elements, according to Timothy Q.
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