Anche gli uccelli distinguono lingue diverse

Un esperimento svolto dal professor Shigeru Watanabe della Keio University ha mostrato come l'intonazione della produzione in lingue diverse possa essere distinta anche da alcuni uccelli, in particolare il passero di Java.

"Humans are able to distinguish between languages, even ones they don't know, from the intonation and pronunciation, and it seems that paddy birds have the same ability"

Shigeru Watanabe, Keio University experimentalpsychology professor

Pet birds can not only imitate sounds, they can distinguish between languages, potentially offering new clues on how the brain recognises speech, Japanese researchers say.
It has already been confirmed that monkeys, mice and other mammals can recognise different languages but this is the first time that birds have been found to possess the ability, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper reported.