Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of
multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well‐known example of birdsong, other …

Winner, 2020 ASCA Book Award, given by the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis A
groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals In When Animals Speak, Eva …

Recently developed methods in computational neuroethology have enabled increasingly
detailed and comprehensive quantification of animal movements and behavioral kinematics …

" Introduction There are numerous neurobiological models of language, ranging from those
concerned with speech perception, white matter structure, and the function of dorsal and …

Human speech possesses a rich hierarchical structure that allows for meaning to be altered
by words spaced far apart in time. Conversely, the sequential structure of nonhuman …

Identifying universal principles underpinning diverse natural systems is a key goal of the life
sciences. A powerful approach in addressing this goal has been to test whether patterns …

We argue that rich data gathered in experimental primatology in the last 40 years can benefit
from analytical methods used in contemporary linguistics. Focusing on the syntactic and …

Why does human speech have rhythm? As we cannot travel back in time to witness how
speech developed its rhythmic properties and why humans have the cognitive skills to …

Human language, music and a variety of animal vocalizations constitute ways of sonic
communication that exhibit remarkable structural complexity. While the complexities of …

Africa's paleo-climate change represents an “ecological black-box” along the evolutionary
timeline of spoken language; a vocal hominid went in and, millions of years later, out came a …