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Evolution of the human tongue and emergence of speech biomechanics
The tongue is one of the organs most central to human speech. Here, the evolution and species-unique properties of the human tongue is traced, via reference to the apparent articulatory behavior of extant non-human great apes, and fossil findings from early hominids – from a point of view of articul...
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author | Ekström, Axel G. Edlund, Jens |
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description | The tongue is one of the organs most central to human speech. Here, the evolution and species-unique properties of the human tongue is traced, via reference to the apparent articulatory behavior of extant non-human great apes, and fossil findings from early hominids – from a point of view of articulatory phonetics, the science of human speech production. Increased lingual flexibility provided the possibility of mapping of articulatory targets, possibly via exaptation of manual-gestural mapping capacities evident in extant great apes. The emergence of the human-specific tongue, its properties, and morphology were crucial to the evolution of human articulate speech. |
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spelling | pubmed-102662342023-06-15 Evolution of the human tongue and emergence of speech biomechanics Ekström, Axel G. Edlund, Jens Front Psychol Psychology The tongue is one of the organs most central to human speech. Here, the evolution and species-unique properties of the human tongue is traced, via reference to the apparent articulatory behavior of extant non-human great apes, and fossil findings from early hominids – from a point of view of articulatory phonetics, the science of human speech production. Increased lingual flexibility provided the possibility of mapping of articulatory targets, possibly via exaptation of manual-gestural mapping capacities evident in extant great apes. The emergence of the human-specific tongue, its properties, and morphology were crucial to the evolution of human articulate speech. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10266234/ /pubmed/37325743 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1150778 Text en Copyright © 2023 Ekström and Edlund. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Ekström, Axel G. Edlund, Jens Evolution of the human tongue and emergence of speech biomechanics |
title | Evolution of the human tongue and emergence of speech biomechanics |
title_full | Evolution of the human tongue and emergence of speech biomechanics |
title_fullStr | Evolution of the human tongue and emergence of speech biomechanics |
title_full_unstemmed | Evolution of the human tongue and emergence of speech biomechanics |
title_short | Evolution of the human tongue and emergence of speech biomechanics |
title_sort | evolution of the human tongue and emergence of speech biomechanics |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10266234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325743 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1150778 |
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