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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022

Long-distance dependencies in birdsong syntax.

William A Searcy, Jill Soha, Susan Peters, Stephen Nowicki

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Language-like properties in the vocal behavior of animals.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2026
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  4. Language-like efficiency and structure in house finch song.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024
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  5. Overcoming bias in the comparison of human language and animal communication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

William A SearcyDepartment of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1969-0561
Jill SohaDepartment of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Susan PetersDepartment of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Stephen NowickiDepartment of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6564-905X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Songbird syntax is generally thought to be simple, in particular lacking long-distance dependencies in which one element affects choice of another occurring considerably later in the sequence. Here, we test for long-distance dependencies in the sequences of songs produced by song sparrows (

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SparrowsAnimalsVocalization, Animalanimal communicationbirdsonglanguage evolutionsongsyntax

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PMID35078357
PMCPMC8790354

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