Possible preadaptations to speech. A preliminary comparative

Verhaegen, Marc; Munro, Stephen

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“…Furthermore, humans have relatively flat faces, so their tongues are shorter and rounder than those of other primates (D. E. Lieberman, 2011). Behind the alveolar ridge, people's hard palates are domed, unlike the flat hard palates of other mammals (Verhaegen & Munro, 2004). This gives humans the ability to vary tongue height, which is another dimension within the oral cavity for tongue movements and the corresponding influences on the spectral properties of the sounds produced.…”

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The voice: From identity to interactions.

Scott¹,

McGettigan²

2016

APA Handbook of Nonverbal Communication.

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The human voice is a ubiquitous and a complex phenomenon. Voices are used for conversational speech, where the vocal expression conveys a great deal of linguistic and nonlinguistic information. There is also considerable modification of the talker's voice, and of the listener's perceptual processing, during interactions. In this chapter, we address the different kinds of information expressed in the voice and the various factors, including those derived from cognitive neuroscience, that lead to variations in how people speak. We note at the outset that indexical aspects of someone's voice, which refer to talker-specific properties of the voice, cannot be completely distinguished from the properties of his or her speech. For example, some factors, such as the accent with which he or she speaks, will affect both indexical and linguistic aspects of his or her spoken voice. ANATOMY, EVOLUTION, AND THE MECHANICS OF VOICE Anatomy of SpeechAccording to the source/filter theory of speech production (Fant, 1960), the sound produced atCopyright American Psychological Association. Not for further distribution. FIGURE 11.1. Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image of a female British English talker, producing the vowel "e" in "me." Gross anatomical structures are indicated on the image.

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Section: Evolution Of the Voicementioning

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The voice: From identity to interactions.

Scott¹,

McGettigan²

2016

APA Handbook of Nonverbal Communication.

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“…This exercise can be repeated with all other features in which humans differ from our closest relatives the chimpanzees: furlessness, subcutaneous fat, olfactory reduction, external nose, parabolic tooth row, very large brain, and even human speech can be analysed into smaller elements (Verhaegen and Munro 2004). By combining all these results, we can develop a data set that can be used to evaluate various models of human evolution, including the 'waterside' and 'open plain' models.…”

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