Abstract
During the course of this book, I have considered how avian behavioural research is conducted and suggested a possible new approach to gathering and interpreting data that represents and allows assessment of avian cognition. My suggestion has been that avian research should be couched within a facet theory framework employing a mapping sentence. The facet theory approach I am putting forward for use in avian behavioural research may be used either on its own or as a supplement to traditional avian research procedures. It has not been my intention to offer the mapping sentence as a replacement to conventional research approaches or to suggest that this approach is a panacea that will solve all of the issues associated with this type of research. Simply put, I believe that the mapping sentence approach potentially offers a way of conducting research, analysing the data that arises from this research and developing theories and understanding in avian behavioural research. In the earlier chapters, I have presented examples of how a mapping sentence design may be employed in avian research. In this final chapter, I summarise the contents of the earlier chapters and draw limits around the mapping sentence approach as this may be used in avian behavioural research. I also go into greater detail in considering aspects of mapping sentences such as different types of mapping sentences, the common range, theoretical requirements regarding the use of mapping sentences and the linguistic structure of the mapping sentence.
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The requirement for monotonicity in avian research is made potentially more problematic as bird behaviour is complex with interactant components. On such an understanding of avian behaviour, addressing this in a manner that would facilitate data with the characteristic of monotonicity is a challenge for the researcher.
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Neurophysiological research into human subjects has suggested that processing first deals with word category information as well as the establishment of local phrase structure. At a later stage in the processing, other and different types of information are extracted. Interaction between different types of information appears to happen later during processing, and these occur in an apparently universal order. The precise point at which these later forms of processing occur happens dependent upon on when the relevant information becomes available (Friederici and Weissenborn 2007).
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Which Taylor (2003) calls “one of the most basic, and intuitively most salient of all linguistic categories” (p 202)
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A fundamental component of a language’s lexicon which has a meaning greater than that of its individual components (see “Glossary”)
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This is especially true in the discipline of behavioural ecology.
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