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Bound for Specific Sounds: Vocal Predisposition in Animal Communication.
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Bound for Specific Sounds: Vocal Predisposition in Animal Communication.

  • Garcia M Animal Behaviour, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8051, Zurich, Switzerland; Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: maxime.garcia@ymail.com.
  • Manser M Animal Behaviour, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8051, Zurich, Switzerland; Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 2020-06-30
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  • Trends in cognitive sciences. - 2020
animal sound production
bioacoustics
human speech
vocal adaptation
vocal anatomy
vocal control
vocal learning
English Mechanical constraints imposed by anatomical adaptations are a ubiquitous feature of animal sound production. They can give rise to 'vocal predispositions' (i.e., acoustic structures strictly determined by vocal anatomy). Such predispositions are crucial to the investigation of the cognitive and evolutionary processes underlying acoustic communication in vertebrates, including human speech.
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