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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 understanding of how and why birds sing, what their songs and calls mean, and how they have evolved. All contributors have strived to speak, not only to fellow experts, but also to the general reader. The result is a book of readable science, richly illustrated with recordings and pictures of the sounds of birds. Bird song is much more than just one behaviour of a single, particular group of or

Birds --- Birdsongs. --- Behavior. --- Vocalization. --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Talking birds --- Bird calls --- Bird-song --- Bird songs --- Animal sounds --- Songbirds

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Bird song is one of the most remarkable and impressive sounds in the natural world, and has inspired not only students of natural history, but also great writers, poets and composers. Extensively updated from the first edition, the main thrust of this book is to suggest that the two main functions of song are attracting a mate and defending territory. It shows how this evolutionary pressure has led to the amazing variety and complexity we see in the songs of different species throughout the world. Writing primarily for students and researchers in animal behavior, the authors review over 1000 scientific papers and reveal how scientists are beginning to unravel and understand how and why birds communicate with the elaborate vocalizations we call song. Highly illustrated throughout and written in straightforward language, Bird Song also holds appeal for amateur ornithologists with some knowledge of biology.

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Scholars have long been captivated by the parallels between birdsong and human speech and language. In this book, leading scholars draw on the latest research to explore what birdsong can tell us about the biology of human speech and language and the consequences for evolutionary biology. They examine the cognitive and neural similarities between birdsong learning and speech and language acquisition, considering vocal imitation, auditory learning, an early vocalization phase ("babbling"), the structural properties of birdsong and human language, and the striking similarities between the neural organization of learning and vocal production in birdsong and human speech. After outlining the basic issues involved in the study of both language and evolution, the contributors compare birdsong and language in terms of acquisition, recursion, and core structural properties, and then examine the neurobiology of song and speech, genomic factors, and the emergence and evolution of language.

Birds --- Birdsongs. --- Cognitive neuroscience. --- Human evolution. --- Language acquisition. --- Neurolinguistics. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Vocalization. --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Neuro-linguistics --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Cognitive neuropsychology --- Bird calls --- Bird-song --- Bird songs --- Acquisition --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Biolinguistics --- Higher nervous activity --- Neuropsychology --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Cognitive science --- Animal sounds --- Songbirds --- Talking birds --- Philosophy --- Origin --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- NEUROSCIENCE/General --- Cognitive psychology --- Evolution. Phylogeny --- Birdsongs --- Cognitive neuroscience --- Human evolution --- Language acquisition --- Neurolinguistics --- Vocalization