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Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready

For four decades, the inability of nonhuman primates to produce human speech sounds has been claimed to stem from limitations in their vocal tract anatomy, a conclusion based on plaster casts made from the vocal tract of a monkey cadaver. We used x-ray videos to quantify vocal tract dynamics in livi...

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Autores principales: Fitch, W. Tecumseh, de Boer, Bart, Mathur, Neil, Ghazanfar, Asif A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5148209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27957536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600723