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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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Rules and mechanisms for efficient two-stage learning in neural circuits
eLife, 2017 Trial-and-error learning requires evaluating variable actions and reinforcing successful variants. In songbirds, vocal exploration is induced by LMAN, the output of a basal ganglia-related circuit that also contributes a corrective bias to the vocal ...
Tiberiu Teşileanu +2 more
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Different frequency control mechanisms and the exploitation of frequency space in passerines
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Birdsong is used in reproductive context and, consequently, has been shaped by strong natural and sexual selection. The acoustic performance includes a multitude of acoustic and temporal characteristics that are thought to honestly reveal the quality of ...
Franz Goller, Jay Love, Gabriel Mindlin
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Periodontology 2000, EarlyView.Abstract Objectives Smoking tobacco is a critical modifiable risk factor for periodontal and peri‐implant diseases. This narrative review integrates established behavioral theories with communication‐based psychological processes to propose an evidence‐based model for smoking cessation support in periodontal care.
Christoph A. Ramseier
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Binomials in English and French: ablaut, rhyme and syllable structure
LinguisticsBinomial expressions (e.g., hocus-pocus; dribs and drabs) are irreversible sequences of two types: reduplicative binomials (e.g., pitter-patter) and conjoined binomials (e.g., wheeling and dealing).
Green Viola, Birdsong David
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Training Methods Research Opportunities for a Pilot Workforce in Transition: A Literature Review
Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & ResearchOver the next 15 years, 50% of the U.S. commercial air carrier workforce will retire, making way for younger pilots from Generations Y and Z. This review identifies the emerging pilot workforce and training methods, including emerging technologies and ...
James Birdsong, Kurt L Reesman
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The Emergence of Hierarchical Structure in Human Language
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 We propose a novel account for the emergence of human language syntax. Like many evolutionary innovations, language arose from the adventitious combination of two pre-existing, simpler systems that had been evolved for other functional tasks.
Shigeru eMiyagawa +2 more
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Temporal regularity increases with repertoire complexity in the Australian pied butcherbird's song [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Music maintains a characteristic balance between repetition and novelty. Here, we report a similar balance in singing performances of free-living Australian pied butcherbirds. Their songs include many phrase types.
Eathan Janney +5 more
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The physics of birdsong production [PDF]
Contemporary Physics, 2013 Human babies need to learn how to talk. The need of a tutor to achieve acceptable vocalizations is a feature that we share with a few species in the animal kingdom. Among those are Songbirds, which account for nearly half of the known bird species. For that reason, Songbirds have become an ideal animal model to study how a brain reconfigures itself ...
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.The figure depicts the paper's theoretical grounding (i.e., in the Component Model of Reading), and the results and interpretations for each research question in support of the conclusion that displacement and migration experiences play a role in biliteracy acquisition and cross‐linguistic transfer.
Sarah Akkad, Kaja Jasińska
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