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Speech evolution: Let barking dogs sleep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Philip Lieberman
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912-1978 [email protected]

Abstract

Many animals, including dogs, produce vocal signals in which their mouths open and close producing “syllables.” In contrast, the vocal signals of species other than humans are tied to emotional states. The Broca's-Wernicke's area model of the brain bases of language is wrong.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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