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. 2016 Aug 3:7:1171.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01171. eCollection 2016.

Commentary: Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls

Steven Phillips  1 , William H Wilson  2
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Commentary: Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls

Steven Phillips et al. Front Psychol. .
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Keywords: category theory; compositionality; syntax; systematicity; universality.

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A category theory perspective on compositionality for ABC-D and AC-D bird calls for systematic (A) and nonsystematic (B) cases. Arrow labels correspond to constituent and compositional capacities. Disruption of the constituent arrow for capacity D for the systematic composition (C) results in disruption of the capacities ABC-D and AC-D calls (indicated by slashed arrows). Disruption of the constituent arrow for capacity D(P1) for the nonsystematic composition (D) results in the disruption of capacity ABC-D, but not capacity AC-D.
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