ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2019
Rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations: a cross-species perspective.
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- Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Humans, but not zebra finches, produce spontaneously isochronous song through the lifespan.iScience · 2026Article
- Extreme Rhythm Keeping in Long-Range Slow Click Communication of Sperm Whales.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Evolutionary Trajectories of Consciousness: From Biological Foundations to Technological Horizons.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Rhythm Facilitates Auditory Working Memory via Beta-Band Encoding and Theta-Band Maintenance.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Article
- Isochrony in barks of Cape fur seal (Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Developmental origins of natural sound perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- A Preliminary Study of Speech Rhythm Differences as Markers of Stuttering Persistence in Preschool-Age Children.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Syntactic modulation of rhythm in Australian pied butcherbird song.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Detecting surface changes in a familiar tune: exploring pitch, tempo and timbre.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Musicality in human vocal communication: an evolutionary perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Rhythm May Be Key to Linking Language and Cognition in Young Infants: Evidence From Machine Learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Voice modulatory cues to structure across languages and species.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Preferred auditory temporal processing regimes and auditory-motor synchronization.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- Rhythmic abilities in humans and non-human animals: a review and recommendations from a methodological perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- The Importance of Rhythmic Stimulation for Preterm Infants in the NICU.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Acoustic information about upper limb movement in voicing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading.Journal of eye movement research · 2020Article
- Motor and Predictive Processes in Auditory Beat and Rhythm Perception.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Review
- Interactive rhythms across species: the evolutionary biology of animal chorusing and turn-taking.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
Why does human speech have rhythm? As we cannot travel back in time to witness how speech developed its rhythmic properties and why humans have the cognitive skills to process them, we rely on alternative methods to find out. One powerful tool is the comparative approach: studying the presence or absence of cognitive/behavioral traits in other species to determine which traits are shared between species and which are recent human inventions. Vocalizations of many species exhibit temporal structure, but little is known about how these rhythmic structures evolved, are perceived and produced, their biological and developmental bases, and communicative functions. We review the literature on rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations as a first step toward understanding similarities and differences across species. We extend this review to quantitative techniques that are useful for computing rhythmic structure in acoustic sequences and hence facilitate cross-species research. We report links between vocal perception and motor coordination and the differentiation of rhythm based on hierarchical temporal structure. While still far from a complete cross-species perspective of speech rhythm, our review puts some pieces of the puzzle together.
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