ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Bottlenose dolphin mothers modify signature whistles in the presence of their own calves.
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- Acoustic Identity: Linking Signature Whistles and Visual Identification in a Threatened Dolphin Population.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- The Acoustic Ecology of Coastal Dolphins by Assessing the Structural Variability of Sounds and the Influence of Contextual Factors.Integrative zoology · 2025Article
- The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes.Science advances · 2025Article
- Assessing an acoustic bioindicator of leisure boating disturbance on bottlenose dolphins.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Integrative neural mechanisms for social communication of learned vocal behavior.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2025Review
- A longitudinal investigation of the acoustic properties of infant-directed speech from 6 to 18 months.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Cetaceans are the next frontier for vocal rhythm research.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Bottlenose dolphin mothers modify signature whistles in the presence of their own calves.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Toward an evolutionary account of the changes in the human pitch vocal system.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Human caregivers interacting with children typically modify their speech in ways that promote attention, bonding, and language acquisition. Although this "motherese," or child-directed communication (CDC), occurs in a variety of human cultures, evidence among nonhuman species is very rare. We looked for its occurrence in a nonhuman mammalian species with long-term mother-offspring bonds that is capable of vocal production learning, the bottlenose dolphin (
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