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  • How speech sounds come to be understood as language remains unclear. Here, the authors find that brain responses to speech in part reflect abstraction of phonological units specific to the language being spoken, mediated through relationships between acoustic features.

    • Anna Mai
    • Stephanie Riès
    • Timothy Q. Gentner
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-19

  • By examining the organization of bird song and human speech, the authors show that the two types of communication signals have similar sequential structures, following both hierarchical and Markovian organization.

    • Tim Sainburg
    • Brad Theilman
    • Timothy Q. Gentner
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-11

  • Controversy surrounds the suggestion that recursion is a uniquely human computational ability that enables language. A study now finds this ability in a songbird and takes steps toward a model system for syntactic competence.

    • Tiffany C Bloomfield
    • Timothy Q Gentner
    • Daniel Margoliash
    News & Views
    Nature Neuroscience
    Volume: 14, P: 947-948