From birdsong to speech: A plea for comparative approaches

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-208

  Todt, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Signal repertoires; Song learning; Speech segmentation; Units of interaction

Indexed keywords

AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; NEOPLEA; PRIMATES;

EID: 3042564953     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0001-37652004000200003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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