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Lameira, Adriano R. (2022) Arboreal origin of consonants and thus, ultimately, speech. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27 (2). pp. 122-124. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2022.11.012
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.11.012
Abstract
The world’s spoken languages are universally composed of vowels and consonants, but the primate prototypical call repertoire is almost exclusively composed of vowel-like calls. What was the origin of consonant-like calls? Their prevalence across great apes suggests that an arboreal lifestyle and extractive foraging were ecological preconditions for speech evolution.
Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Historical linguistics, Consonants -- History, Language and languages -- Origin, Speech and gesture, Animal sounds | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Science | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1364-6613 | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 122-124 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.tics.2022.11.012 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 January 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 January 2023 | ||||||||
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