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Vocal Repertoire of Captive Guinea Baboons (Papio papio)
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In: Origins of human language: Continuities and discontinuities with nonhuman primates ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01649539 ; Louis-Jean Boë; Joël Fagot; Pascal Perrier; Jean-Luc Schwartz. Origins of human language: Continuities and discontinuities with nonhuman primates, Peter Lang, pp.15-58, 2017, Speech Production and Perception, 978-3-631-73726-2. ⟨10.3726/b12405⟩ (2017)
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Evidence of a Vocalic Proto-System in the Baboon (Papio papio) Suggests Pre-Hominin Speech Precursors
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Boë, Louis-Jean; Berthommier, Frédéric; Legou, Thierry; Captier, Guillaume; Kemp, Caralyn; Sawallis, Thomas R.; Becker, Yannick; Rey, Arnaud; Fagot, Joël. - : Public Library of Science, 2017
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Abstract:
Language is a distinguishing characteristic of our species, and the course of its evolution is one of the hardest problems in science. It has long been generally considered that human speech requires a low larynx, and that the high larynx of nonhuman primates should preclude their producing the vowel systems universally found in human language. Examining the vocalizations through acoustic analyses, tongue anatomy, and modeling of acoustic potential, we found that baboons (Papio papio) produce sounds sharing the F1/F2 formant structure of the human [ɨ æ ɑ ɔ u] vowels, and that similarly with humans those vocalic qualities are organized as a system on two acoustic-anatomic axes. This confirms that hominoids can produce contrasting vowel qualities despite a high larynx. It suggests that spoken languages evolved from ancient articulatory skills already present in our last common ancestor with Cercopithecoidea, about 25 MYA.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28076426
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169321
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5226677/
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