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Much of what we know about the song control system has come from studies of one particular songbird, the... - zebra finch how is bird song a possible model for human speech? - - learned system of vocal communication - structurally complex - sensitive phase for learning exists - genetically-guided behavior - evidence that vocal production is lateralized within the brain what is a bird song? - long complex vocalization produced by a male in possession of a breeding territory song learning phases (+ short description) - - sensitive phase (period of time when a young bird learns what it hears and is remembering those) - subsong (not singing or learning) - sensorimotor phase (starts babbling - produces plastic song) - crystallized song (singing a recognizable species-specific song) why do zebra finch not have a long subsong period?