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Scienmag reports that scrambled-song tutoring was followed within one generation by learned songs exhibiting two statistical laws associated with human language. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Zebra finches restructure scrambled songs, revealing universal linguistic laws · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:9e2df642fad9d4cf0aa7364033d7be588a06b88f93267a6e0e277e030a8e50d5

A new re-analysis of experimental birdsong data shows that when these finches are tutored with deliberately scrambled, “random” songs, they transform the material as they learn it—reshaping it within a single generation so that the resulting songs obey two of the most celebrated statistical laws of human language.