Recursion, Language, and Starlings
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Recursion, Language, and Starlings
It has been claimed that recursion is one of the properties that distinguishes human language from any other form of animal communication. Contrary to this claim, a recent study purports to demonstrate center-embedded recursion in starlings. I show that the performance of the birds in this study can be explained by a counting strategy, without any appreciation of center-embedding. To demonstrat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1080/15326900701399947