Do bird songs have grammar?

Linguists have supposed that syntactic structure was only found in human language, but now a team of researchers is finding that finches use it in their songs. Does that mean they speak a kind of …

Chaser, a border collie, can recognise the names of over 1,000 objects, and her owner claims she can carry out commands involving verbs and nouns combined.

Is this evidence that animals can use language-like skills?

Linguist Daniel Midgley investigates on …