Primate feedstock for the evolution of consonants

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 60-62

  Lameira, Adriano R ^a,b   Maddieson, Ian ^c   Zuberbühler, Klaus ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Pongo Foundation   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APE; CONSONANT; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIMATE; SPEECH; SUPRALARYNGEAL VOCAL TRACT; VOCAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; MOUTH; PHONETICS; PRIMATES; SPEECH; VOCAL CORDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84892953620     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.10.013     Document Type: Note

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