Finch song learning in the news again

Tim Reequarth and Meegan Crist, "From the mouth of babes and birds", NYT 6/29/1013: Researchers who focus on infant language and those who specialize in birdsong have teamed up in a new study suggesting that learning the transitions between syllables — from “da” to “do” and “do” to “da” — is the crucial bottleneck between [...]