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Birdsong and speech development: could there be parallels?
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This article is published in American Scientist.The article was published on 1970-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 368 citations till now.read more
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On the effects of domestication on canine social development and behavior
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Language capacities of nonhuman animals
TL;DR: This paper reviews the language analogue studies with great apes and cetaceans, examining the utility of the different methods and reviewing the animals' accomplishments, and concluding that chimpanzees and bonobos do not threaten human uniqueness with respect to speech and language.
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Native-language phonotactic constraints affect how well Chinese subjects perceive the word-final English /t/-/d/ contrast
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TL;DR: This paper found that the Cantonese subjects were significantly more sensitive to the English /t/−/d/ contrast than the Mandarin subjects, with the Shanghainese subjects showing an intermediate level of performance.
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Transgenic songbirds offer an opportunity to develop a genetic model for vocal learning
TL;DR: An HIV-based lentivirus was injected into the very early embryo to target the primordial germline cells that later give rise to sperm and eggs and produced germline transgenic hatchlings that expressed the GFP protein (F1).
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Animals can vary signal amplitude with receiver distance: evidence from zebra finch song
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Biological Foundations of Language
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A comparative approach to vocal learning: Song development in white-crowned sparrows.
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The Role of Auditory Feedback in the Control of Vocalization in the White‐Crowned Sparrow1
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Ontogeny of bird song.
TL;DR: The characteristics of its innervation, musculature, membranes and resonators, and its functioning must incorporate the prior' ity of respiratory needs, so a study of vocal development involves control over only a small number of variables.