The social circumstances under which Koshik's speech imitations developed suggest that one function of vocal learning might be to cement social bonds and, in unusual cases, social bonds across species.
American, or Lenox, Belleek, a successful imitation that developed its own warm and restrained perfection, was initiated by Walter Scott Lenox in about 1889 at the Ceramic Art Company and has been made by Lenox, Inc., since 1906.
As Darwin noted, young birds learn their songs from adults by imitation, and develop them into a song or repertoire of their own.
The problem here is that the spatial relationship between metaphrase, paraphrase, and imitation was developed in the seventeenth century, hundreds of years before theorists in every field began considering the dialectical tension between modernism and postmodernism.
In 2015, Harbin Institute of Technology in China develops an imitation humanoid "dexterous hand" for the national lunar exploration project.
"If we cut off imitation strategies for developing countries, we are drastically narrowing the options they have to reach an economic takeoff," said John H. Barton, a professor at Stanford law school who led the commission on intellectual property rights.
The fugue, a composition using the technique of melodic imitation, became highly developed in Bach's hands—e.g., the fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier and his final compendium of contrapuntal devices, The Art of the Fugue.
The female's mantle protrudes from the shell and develops into an imitation small fish, complete with fish-like markings and false eyes.
Style was nurtured painstakingly: Cézanne reflected that "style does not develop from the slavish imitation of the old masters; it develops from the artist's personal manner of feeling and expression".
This paper quantifies spillovers from high technology imports to domestic imitation and innovation in developed and developing countries.
