Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)

Re:Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird ca... by mikro2nd on Saturday October 17, 2020 @10:58AM (#24810434)

Am I the only one wondering what the National Institutes of Health has to do with ornithological research? Isn't this a little outside their mandated field?

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Re:Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird ca... by anamexis on Saturday October 17, 2020 @11:12AM (#24810545)

The NIH did not run this study. The submitted link is just the article (from the Nature Community journal) being hosted by the NIH's library.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/intro/

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Re:Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird ca... by hprotagonist on Saturday October 17, 2020 @11:28AM (#24810678)

This work was done with a combination of funding from the US national science foundation and Japan's JSPS (see acknowledgements) and doesn't involve the NIH directly. PubMed/PMC are hosted there, though.

That said, animal models are extremely common for NIH-funded work, and birds feature prominently in studies of language and auditory processing.

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Re:Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird ca... by cma on Saturday October 17, 2020 @12:56PM (#24811315)

I don't know the details of this study, but aside from that this might prove relevant to humans, NIH also do veterinary research: https://www.ors.od.nih.gov/sr/dvr/Pages/default.aspx

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