'Uniquely Human' Component Of Language Found In Gregarious Birds

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- 'Uniquely Human' Component Of Language Found In Gregarious Birds

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Uniquely_Human_Component_Of_Language_Found_In_Gregarious_Birds.html

Chicago IL (SPX) May 01, 2006 - Although linguists have argued that certain
patterns of language organization are the exclusive province of humans --
perhaps the only uniquely human component of language -- researchers from the
University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego have discovered
the same capacity to recognize such patterns and distinguish between them in
Sturnus vulgaris, the common European starling.

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