▪ Abstract Human speech and birdsong have numerous parallels. Both humans and
songbirds learn their complex vocalizations early in life, exhibiting a strong dependence on …

Bird fanciers have known for centuries that songbirds learn their songs. This learning has
striking parallels to speech acquisition: like humans, birds must hear the sounds of adults …

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our …

When talking to infants, human mothers use vocal patterns that are unusual by the standards
of normal conversation. Mothers, as well as fathers and adults who are not parents, speak …

In this review, we place equal emphasis on production, usage, and comprehension because
these components of communication may exhibit different developmental trajectories and be …

In most birds and mammals, young are raised in family groups. The phenotypes of
nestmates and parents are thus reliable cues for recognition of conspecifics and kin …

Research on avian song learning has traditionally been based on an instructional model, as
exemplified by the sensorimotor model of song development. Several large‐scale, species …

Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural
Constraints on Development, this volume presents many of the emergent themes discussed …

The sexual responsiveness of female canaries, Serinus canaria, to six different types of male
song phrases extracted from natural song was tested. Copulation solicitation displays were …

All phases of song development from infancy to adulthood were studied intensively in a
group of laboratory‐reared birds. Male swamp sparrows, Melospiza georgiana, trained with …