Arboreal origin of consonants and thus,ultimately, speech |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK |
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Abstract: | The world’s spoken languages are universally composed of vowels and consonants, but the primate prototypical call repertoire is almost exclusively composed of vowel-like calls. What was the origin of consonant-like calls? Their prevalence across great apes suggests that an arboreal lifestyle and extractive foraging were ecological preconditions for speech evolution. |
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