The Starling's Song 2: The Revenge (was Re: Cognitive Linguistics, "The Language Instinct", and High-Functioning Autistics)

Regarding our recent discussion of cognition and animals, I
found this article stating that starlings' songs show recursive
center-embedding on the UCSD homepage:

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/gentner_starling06.asp

I'd heard someone talking about this guy giving a colloquium
a few weeks back, but they must not have explained it well,
because I sure didn't get *this* out of their description.

-David
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"sunly eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze."
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."

-Jim Morrison

http://dedalvs.free.fr/