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vocal learning

A behavioral process whose outcome is a relatively long-lasting behavioral change whereby an organism modifies innate vocalizations to imitate sounds… 
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Review
2011
Review
2011
Songs to syntax: the linguistics of birdsong
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Newborns' Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Precise auditory–vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication
Brain mechanisms for communication must establish a correspondence between sensory and motor codes used to represent the signal… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
The biology and evolution of music: A comparative perspective
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Animal behaviour: Elephants are capable of vocal learning
There are a few mammalian species that can modify their vocalizations in response to auditory experience — for example, some… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Wild Chimpanzees Produce Group‐Specific Calls: a Case for Vocal Learning?
Vocal learning, where animals can modify the structure of their vocalizations as a result of experience, has been found in a… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Learned Birdsong and the Neurobiology of Human Language
Abstract: Vocal learning, the substrate for human language, is a rare trait found to date in only three distantly related groups… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Social interaction shapes babbling: Testing parallels between birdsong and speech
Birdsong is considered a model of human speech development at behavioral and neural levels. Few direct tests of the proposed… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Bird song, ecology and speciation.
The study of bird song dialects was once considered the most promising approach for investigating the role of behaviour in… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Birdsong and human speech: common themes and mechanisms.
Human speech and birdsong have numerous parallels. Both humans and songbirds learn their complex vocalizations early in life… 
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