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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 philip_lieberman@brown.edu
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Abstract

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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.

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© 1998 Cambridge University Press