An increasingly popular animal model for studying the neural basis of social behavior,
cognition, and communication is the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Interest in this …

ABSTRACT A critical feature of language is that the form of words need not bear any
perceptual similarity to their function–these relationships can be 'arbitrary'. The capacity to …

Compared to other animals, humans supposedly excel at voluntarily controlling and
strategically displaying emotional signals. Yet, new data shows that nonhuman great apes' …

It has been argued that a necessary condition for the emergence of speech in humans is the
ability to vocalise irrespective of underlying affective states, but when and how this happens …

All living things communicate yet only humans can be said to communicate using language.
How this came to be the case is a fundamental mystery unsolved by contemporary science …

Song sessions produced by humpback whales recorded off the coasts of Hawaii and
Colombia show recurrent patterns of acoustic variation across consecutive songs. Analyses …

The quest for the origins of language is a diverse enterprise, where research from a variety
of disciplines brings area-specific ideas and area-specific terminology to bear. This variety …

Cette contribution s' intéresse à l'analyse acoustique de la fréquence fondamentale (fo)
dans des phrases françaises identiques avec différentes émotions produites, d'une part, par …

Can nonhuman animals use the same acoustic signal to transmit different illocutions on
different occasions? This communicative capacity is known as vocal functional flexibility and …

Studies of meaning in human and primate communication face, in principle, similar
methodological problems. In both cases, meaning is not observable directly, but must be …