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About juvenility, the features of feminine speech, and a big leap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2006

Pierre Linard
Pierre Linard*
Affiliation:
Department of PsychologyWashington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO63130
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p.lienard@qub.ac.uk
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Abstract:

In this commentary, I ask three specific questions: (1) Why would a juvenile stage be maintained in humans? (2) What could be a satisfactory evolutionary scenario explaining the features of feminine speech? And (3), what could be the contribution of sexual selection in the elicitation of higher informational contents in communicative signals?

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , June 2006 , pp. 293
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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