Comparative analyses of speech and language converge on birds

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 evo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Beckers, Gabriël J. L., Berwick, Robert C, Bolhuis, Johan J.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129540