Java sparrows (Padda oryzivora) were trained to discriminate English from Chinese spoken by a bilingual speaker. They could learn discrimination and showed generalization to new sentences spoken by the same speaker and those spoken by a new speaker. Thus, the birds distinguished between English and Chinese. Although auditory cues for the discrimination were not specified, this is the first evidence that non-mammalian species can discriminate human languages. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Watanabe, S., Yamamoto, E., & Uozumi, M. (2006). Language discrimination by Java sparrows. Behavioural Processes, 73(1), 114–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2006.01.013
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