Why can parrots and parakeets repeat words but not have conversations? What are their brains like?

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I know they’re just mimicking words and attach no meaning to them but can someone explain why they’re not able to attach meaning to them and form sentences in the way that humans do? I guess the wider question is why humans can’t communicate with animals.

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I have a friend who grew up in a house where they called the TV remote “fernbedienung”. She thought it was a made up word that her parents introduced, until she was an adult, and someone pointed out to her, that it’s just the german word for TV remote. 

Parrots are the same. They’ll repeat a word, but apply zero meaning to it. 

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