标题: Clues About How Humans to Learn Speak [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 9-26-2011 11:07 标题: Clues About How Humans to Learn Speak 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
(1) Matt Ridley, When the Wild Things Learn Language; Even after years of coaching, a 19th century 'feral child' had no command of basic syntax. Wall Street Journal, Sept 24, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576580673693340308.html
(if a human has not learned a language at early age, he or she can never learn to speak)
(2) 研究发现鸟类需要学习才会筑巢. BBC Chinese, Sept 26, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/science/2011/09/110926_birds_nest.shtml
Note:
(a) 南方黑额织布鸟 Southern Masked weaver
(b) The report cites
Walsh PT et al, Individuality in nest building: Do Southern Masked weaver (Ploceus velatus) males vary in their nest-building behaviour? Behavioural Processes, 88:1-6 (September 2011).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21736928