Response to Lieberman on “Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready”
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Macaques do have a speech-ready vocal tract, but lack a speech-ready brain to control it.
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Comment on “Monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready”
Monkey vocal tracts are capable of producing monkey speech, not the full range of articulate human speech. The evolution of human speech entailed both anatomy and brains. Fitch, de Boer, Mathur, and Ghazanfar in Science Advances claim that "monkey vocal tracts are speech-ready," and conclude that "…the evolution of human speech capabilities required neural change rather than modifications of vo...
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