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Guinea baboons grunt with an accent – Phys.org
Musical masterworks such as the Queen of the Night’s Aria from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, are examples of the sounds trained human voices can produce. The precondition…
Musical masterworks such as the Queen of the Night’s Aria from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, are examples of the sounds trained human voices can produce. The precondition for vocal virtuosity as well as for any spoken word is vocal learning, the ability to imitate auditory input. Some songbirds and bats can do this, but humans excel. We can acquire new languages into old age.
To shed light on the evolution of vocal learning, a team led by Julia Fischer from the German Primate Center (DPZ) – Leibniz…
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