Principles of structure building in music, language and animal song

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1664, 2015, Pages

  Rohrmeier, Martin ^a   Zuidema, Willem ^b   Wiggins, Geraint A ^c   Scharff, Constance ^d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal vocalization; Chomsky hierarchy; Comparative perspective; Computational modelling; Language; Music

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANGUAGE; MUSIC; SONG; COGNITION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MUSIC; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CULTURE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MUSIC; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84922204904     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0097     Document Type: Review

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