Learn how wild parrots follow language-like syntax and structured vocal rules during territorial duets.

With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing to the camera, corvids mimic the jarring sounds of construction sites.

People communicate meaning by combining words according to syntactic rules. But this ability is not limited solely to humans: A group of evolutionary biologists have discovered that Japanese great ...

I work in a developing syntactic model called Construction Grammar (CxG). In CxG, rules of syntactic combination (descriptions of local trees) are directly associated with interpretive and use ...