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Comparative analyses of speech and language converge on birds

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Beckers, Gabriël J. L.; Berwick, Robert C; Bolhuis, Johan J.
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Abstract
Unlike nonhuman primates, thousands of bird species have articulatory capabilities that equal or surpass those of humans, and they develop their vocalizations through vocal imitation in a way that is very similar to how human infants learn to speak. An understanding of how speech mechanisms have evolved is therefore unlikely to yield key insights into how the human brain is special.
Date issued
2014-12
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129540
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Journal
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Citation
Beckers, Gabriël J. L. et al. "Comparative analyses of speech and language converge on birds." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37, 6 (December 2014): 547 - 548 © 2014 Cambridge University Press
Version: Original manuscript
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0140-525X
1469-1825

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