Language Adapts to Environment: Sonority and Temperature
The phonetic patterns of human spoken languages have been claimed to be in part shaped by environmental conditions in the locales where they are spoken. This follows predictions of the Acoustic Adaptation Hypothesis, previously mainly applied to the study of bird song, which proposes that differenti...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Communication |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00028/full |