Brains sell magazines, mathematical linguistics sells caffeine. That basically summarizes coverage of a recent study on songbirds' "artificial grammar system". More on that later. First, a summary of ...

Humans aren't alone in being able to grasp early grammatical concepts, say biologists who found songbirds can as well. European starlings were trained to tell the difference between a regular ...

Male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) constantly add new sounds to their repertoires, picking up nearly any auditory object they can find, including the sounds of car alarms, squeaky doors, human ...

The recursive, hierarchical embedding of language units (for example, words or phrases within shorter sentences) that is part of the ability to construct new utterances minimally requires a ...