http://neurodudes.com/2005/04/21/songbirds-can-learn-context-free-grammars/ at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:01:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://neurodudes.com/2005/04/21/songbirds-can-learn-context-free-grammars/comment-page-1/#comment-3803 Robert S. Rodger Wed, 31 May 2006 15:16:17 +0000 http://s93794016.onlinehome.us/wordpress/?p=107#comment-3803 What a "Pretty Polly" says may not tell us much about how she normally strings things together, but Rodger and Rosebrugh (Animal Behaviour, 1979, 27, 737-749) showed that one could describe the morning song of the wood pewee (Contopus virens) by a right-linear grammar; and singing is the birds natural, normal behaviour. What a “Pretty Polly” says may not tell us much about how she normally strings things together, but Rodger and Rosebrugh (Animal Behaviour, 1979, 27, 737-749) showed that one could describe the morning song of the wood pewee (Contopus virens) by a right-linear grammar; and singing is the birds natural, normal behaviour.

]]> http://neurodudes.com/2005/04/21/songbirds-can-learn-context-free-grammars/comment-page-1/#comment-2075 scout Thu, 27 Apr 2006 01:31:20 +0000 http://s93794016.onlinehome.us/wordpress/?p=107#comment-2075 Will someone ask this Tim why doesn't he work with parrots? Why reinvent the wheel? Parrots learn language, grammer, even syntax, and understand. These birds sometimes live to 70 years, so, if they are kept around a couple a decent people, they learn! Starlings? Foolish. Will someone ask this Tim why doesn’t he work with parrots? Why reinvent the wheel? Parrots learn language, grammer, even syntax, and understand. These birds sometimes live to 70 years, so, if they are kept around a couple a decent people, they learn! Starlings? Foolish.

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