Like all science, the definition is contested ... Abe and Watanabe's study shows that songbirds are able to process a recursive grammar - this is perhaps the most significant aspect of their ...

This "recursive grammar" is what linguists have long believed separated man from beast. It took University of California at San Diego psychology researcher Tim Gentner a month and about 15,000 ...

What’s more, a child’s understanding of recursion in pictures is tightly linked to her understanding of grammar ... more clearly than any technical definition: “The woman holds an object ...

Chomsky theorized humans are unique in the animal world in their ability to use recursive grammar â that is, inserting an explanatory clause such as this one â in sentences. Gentner's ...

"We show that European starlings accurately recognise acoustic patterns defined by a recursive, self-embedding, context-free grammar," said Timothy Gentner of the University of California San ...