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Evolution of vocal learning and spoken language

Science, 2019
Although language, and therefore spoken language or speech, is often considered unique to humans, the past several decades have seen a surge in nonhuman animal studies that inform us about human spoken language. Here, I present a modern, evolution-based synthesis of these studies, from behavioral to molecular levels of analyses.
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Vocal functional flexibility in a nonprimate vocal learning species

Journal of Language Evolution
Abstract Can nonhuman animals use the same acoustic signal to transmit different illocutions on different occasions? This communicative capacity is known as vocal functional flexibility and occurs, for example, in speech, when a sentence serves different illocutionary forces or functions on different occasions based on changes to visual ...
Francisco R Magdaleno, Isaac Quintanilla Salinas, Stephen I Rothstein   +2 more
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Sex differences in vocal learning in birds

Nature, 2001
Young females pick up songs much faster than males but are not so versatile later on. A young songbird develops its songs by imitating adults1, just as human infants acquire speech, listening to and memorizing adult songs during an early sensitive phase and then practising its vocalizations until they match the memory formed earlier2.
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A neural circuit specialized for vocal learning

Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 1993
The anterior forebrain circuit of the songbird brain has been known for some time to play a special role in song learning. Recent work has strengthened this view and has begun to describe the specific properties of this pathway. The development of the circuit early during song learning, its auditory responsiveness, and its synaptic interaction with the
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Re-evaluating vocal production learning in non-oscine birds

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021
Carel Ten Cate
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Variation in vocal production learning across songbirds

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021
William A Searcy, Stephen Nowicki
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Vocal Learning

2010
P.J.B. Slater, V.M. Janik
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Towards a new taxonomy of primate vocal production learning

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020
Julia Fischer, Kurt Hammerschmidt
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Vocal imitations and production learning by Australian musk ducks ( Biziura lobata )

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021
Carel Ten Cate
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Chapter 5 Vocal Performance and Sensorimotor Learning in Songbirds

Advances in the Study of Behavior, 2009
Jeffrey Podos, David C Lahti, Dana L Moseley   +2 more
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