A human baby and a baby songbird are different in almost eve…
A human baby and a baby songbird are different in almost every imaginable way. But the two share certain similarities when it comes to learning language – in the baby’s case, speech, and in the bird’s case, its particular song. Both babies and songbirds learn their language from listening to their parents. Babies and birds raised in isolation do not learn to communicate with sound. Both go through a period of babbling. A baby will string together words and phrases, such as “mama, ball, so big, peekaboo,” in ways that make no sense. Later, the baby will sort out these words to form thoughts and sentences. In a similar fashion, a baby songbird will sing tiny segments of its’ parents song, but with those segments in the wrong order. As it matures, it will learn to put the segments of songs together in the right sequence. The main pattern of organization of the paragraph is __________.