Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds

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Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “However, as we note further on in section 6.5, any given linguistic phenomenon is likely to arise from a combination of multiple constraints that cut across these groupings, and, thus, across different kinds of brain mechanisms.”
Segregating the core computational faculty of human language from working memory (2009, background): “Surprisingly, tests on monkeys (2) and on songbirds (3) showed that whereas songbirds can process AnBn sequences, monkeys cannot.”
Accuracy of song syntax learning and singing consistency signal early condition in zebra finches (2008, background): “If there are some general nonlearned rules constraining element sequencing (Soha and Marler 2001; Rose et al. 2004; Gentner et al. 2006) knowledge of a specific male’s model song does not have to be a prerequisite to judging its quality.”