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"For over two decades, Professor Toshitaka Suzuki dedicated his life to studying the Japanese tit — a small songbird native to Japan’s forests. Through years of
by soulofmischief 8mo ago
"For over two decades, Professor Toshitaka Suzuki dedicated his life to studying the Japanese tit — a small songbird native to Japan’s forests. Through years of careful observation and experiments, he discovered something incredible: these birds use grammar-like rules and combine sounds to form meaning, much like how humans use language."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmys2abx4co https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmys2abx4co
- suddenlybananas 8mo agoI'm familiar with this case. The "language" of the birds is so profoundly primitive (it's limited to 2 word combos where the meaning is just the meaning of both words). Here's a good blogpost about it. https://facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-triple-of-readables.html?m=1 https://facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-triple-of-r...
- soulofmischief 8mo agoIf we're going to be able to have a meaningful discussion on this, first you will need to provide for me the definition of language under which you're operating.
- Razengan 8mo agoThis takes more than just being a "linguist"; you need to be a biolinguist/xenolinguist :)