Stepwise acquisition of vocal combinatorial capacity in songbirds and human infants

Dina Lipkind (), Gary F. Marcus, Douglas K. Bemis, Kazutoshi Sasahara, Nori Jacoby, Miki Takahasi, Kenta Suzuki, Olga Feher, Primoz Ravbar, Kazuo Okanoya and Ofer Tchernichovski
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Dina Lipkind: Hunter College, City University of New York
Gary F. Marcus: New York University
Douglas K. Bemis: New York University
Kazutoshi Sasahara: Laboratory for Biolinguistics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Nori Jacoby: The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Miki Takahasi: Laboratory for Biolinguistics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Kenta Suzuki: Laboratory for Biolinguistics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Olga Feher: Hunter College, City University of New York
Primoz Ravbar: City College, City University of New York
Kazuo Okanoya: Laboratory for Biolinguistics, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Ofer Tchernichovski: Hunter College, City University of New York

Nature, 2013, vol. 498, issue 7452, 104-108

Abstract: In two species of songbirds and in pre-lingual human infants, vocal transitions across syllables are acquired slowly, one by one, indicating that combinatorial ability is not the starting point of vocal development but a laboriously achieved end point.

Date: 2013
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