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ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2014

Physical mechanisms may be as important as brain mechanisms in evolution of speech.

Bart de Boer, Marcus Perlman

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Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Evolution of speech and evolution of language.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2017
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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Bart de BoerArtificial Intelligence Lab,Vrije Universiteit Brussel,1050 Brussels,Belgium.bart@ai.vub.ac.behttp://ai.vub.ac.be/members/bart.
Marcus PerlmanDepartment of Cognitive and Information Sciences,University of California-Merced,Merced, CA 95343.mperlman@ucmerced.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present two arguments why physical adaptations for vocalization may be as important as neural adaptations. First, fine control over vocalization is not easy for physical reasons, and modern humans may be exceptional. Second, we present an example of a gorilla that shows rudimentary voluntary control over vocalization, indicating that some neural control is already shared with great apes.

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Animal CommunicationBiological EvolutionCommunicationAnimalsHumansPrimatesSpeech

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PMID25514942

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