Howdy Peter and others!
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Yes, Peter, the bird does say "chop-chop" at one point. The lack of compreh=
ension for bird=A0speech amazes me. I will be a speaker at the Houston Parr=
ot Festival in a couple of weeks and the subject of my talk is the difficul=
ty people have understanding speech generally and particularly bird speech.=
Talking birds are attempting to communicate with us, but few owners or mem=
bers of the public are listening. (I cansee someof you out there rolling yo=
ur eyes.) We don't have to look to space aliens, because that would be a fa=
r greater task than understanding our own language spoken by another terres=
trial creature.
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Mike
Florida
www.ParrotSpeech.com
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Re: Lyrebird imitating construction at Adelaide Zoo...
Posted by: "Peter Shute" pshute2
Sat Jan 7, 2012 2:17 am (PST)
There are indeed at least 5 bits that sound like human speech to me in the =
Chook recording, particularly the phrase "chop chop". If it's true that the=
se birds only pick up new sounds gradually, that bird must have been expose=
d to a lot of repeated phrases.
Peter Shute
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