Chirping of sparrows found to have used a similar pattern to the grammar. The findings are reported Kentaro Abe from Kyoto University, and colleagues Dai Watanabe of Saitama Japan Science and Technology. In his experiments, Abe and his team play a few songs over and over again until the finches were used mendengarnya.Setelah that they randomize syllables per song and played back to the sparrows. The result, the bird was only reacting to one of four versions that have been randomized.
Sparrows were just reacting to the version called SEQ2, as if realizing there are violations of the grammar in it. Nearly 90 percent of the sparrows who were tested showed the same response.
According to Abe, the response indicates the existence of certain rules in setting the order of syllables in the song sparrows are agreed in their communities. "Sparrow has a spontaneous ability to process the relations between words in their songs," said Abe. The ability is not innate, but must be learned.
In subsequent experiments, Abe discovered the bird raised in isolation do not react to SEQ2. After the bird was collected along with other birds for two weeks, before the bird showed the same reaction.
Constance Scharff who studied the birds singing at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, mengatakah that the experimental results is very important because previously only a man who claimed to be the only species that use the grammar. Other animals such as dogs, monkeys, and parrots can recognize and compose a sentence, only the sparrows that use grammar in their chirp .*** [NATGEO | Id | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 07072011]
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Bird Also Understood Grammar
Chirping of sparrows found to have used a similar pattern to the grammar. The findings are reported Kentaro Abe from Kyoto University, and colleagues Dai Watanabe of Saitama Japan Science and Technology. In his experiments, Abe and his team play a few songs over and over again until the finches were used mendengarnya.Setelah that they randomize syllables per song and played back to the sparrows. The result, the bird was only reacting to one of four versions that have been randomized.
Sparrows were just reacting to the version called SEQ2, as if realizing there are violations of the grammar in it. Nearly 90 percent of the sparrows who were tested showed the same response.
According to Abe, the response indicates the existence of certain rules in setting the order of syllables in the song sparrows are agreed in their communities. "Sparrow has a spontaneous ability to process the relations between words in their songs," said Abe. The ability is not innate, but must be learned.
In subsequent experiments, Abe discovered the bird raised in isolation do not react to SEQ2. After the bird was collected along with other birds for two weeks, before the bird showed the same reaction.
Constance Scharff who studied the birds singing at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, mengatakah that the experimental results is very important because previously only a man who claimed to be the only species that use the grammar. Other animals such as dogs, monkeys, and parrots can recognize and compose a sentence, only the sparrows that use grammar in their chirp .*** [NATGEO | Id | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 07072011]
Subscribe to:
Post Comments
(
Atom
)
