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Bidding evidence for primate vocal learning and the cultural substrates for speech evolution

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Lameira, Adriano R. (2017) Bidding evidence for primate vocal learning and the cultural substrates for speech evolution. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 83 . pp. 429-439. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.09.021 ISSN 1873-7528.

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Abstract

Speech evolution seems to defy scientific explanation. Progress on this front has been jammed in an entrenched orthodoxy about what great apes can and (mostly) cannot do vocally, an idea epitomized by the Kuypers/Jürgens hypothesis. Findings by great ape researchers paint, however, starkly different and more optimistic landscapes for speech evolution. Over twenty studies qualify as positive evidence for primate vocal (production) learning following accepted terminology. Additionally, the Kuypers/Jürgens hypothesis shows low etymological, empirical, and theoretical soundness. Great apes can produce novel voiced calls and voluntarily control their modification – observations supposedly impossible. Furthermore, no valid pretext justifies dismissing heuristically the production of new voiceless consonant-like calls by great apes. To underscore this point, new evidence is provided for a novel supra-genera voiceless call across all great ape species. Their vocal invention and vocal learning faculties are real and sufficiently potent to, at times, uphold vocal traditions. These data overpower conventional predicaments in speech evolution theory and will help to make new strides explaining why, among hominids, only humans developed speech.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Q Science > Q Science (General)
Q Science > QL Zoology
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology
Journal or Publication Title: Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 1873-7528
Official Date: December 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
December 2017Published
22 September 2017Available
21 September 2017Accepted
Volume: 83
Page Range: pp. 429-439
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.09.021
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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702137Horizon 2020 Framework Programmehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010661
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