Review of geographic variation in terrestrial mammalian acoustic signals: Human speech variation in a omparative perspective

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 309-332

  Lameira, Adriano R ^a,b   Delgado, Roberto A ^c   Wich, Serge A ^b,d,e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Great Ape Trust of Iowa   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e PanEco   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accent; Acoustic signal; Dialect; Geographic variation; Terrestrial mammal

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651432285     PISSN: 17892082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/JEP.8.2010.4.2     Document Type: Review

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