Warble-duets seem linked to active territory-defense. Physical-fights in the wild were always preceded by warble-duets. Playback-experiments also showed that parrots increased warble-duets when ...

A transformational model of syntactic structures was used to describe children's grammar from under 3 years of age to over 7 years as a self-contained system and to indicate developmental trends. It ...

TOKYO, March 8 (UPI) --Syntax is the set of rules and principles that govern sentence structure and word order, allowing humans to communicate and derive meaning through and from language. Previous ...

Language acquisition in humans relies on abilities like abstraction and use of syntactic rules, which are absent in other animals. The neural correlate of acquiring new linguistic competence was ...

I work in a developing syntactic model called Construction Grammar (CxG). In CxG, rules of syntactic combination (descriptions of local trees) are directly associated with interpretive and use ...