Thanks @cedricboeckx.bsky.social ! @stephaniellaura.bsky.social did an amazing job with a complex dataset!
@cedricboeckx.bsky.socialBeautiful work by @stephaniellaura.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social @mandyridley.bsky.social
providing “evidence of multi-level non-adjacent organisation & learned syntactic structure in a semantic non-human system” — a very rich syntax in a communication system outside human language 🧪
biorxiv.org
Socially learned call sequences reveal gradual development of higher-order structure
Syntax was long considered to distinguish human language from other vocal systems, with parallels in non-human animals historically limited to song. However, song lacks discrete meaning, which is a cr...