This discussion note reviews responses of the linguistics profession to the grave issues of
language endangerment identified a quarter of a century ago in the journal Language by …

Humans have evolved voluntary control over vocal production for speaking and singing,
while preserving the phylogenetically older system of spontaneous nonverbal vocalizations …

Rhythmic properties of speech and language have been a matter of long-standing debates,
with both traditional production and perception studies delivering controversial findings. The …

The amplitude of the speech signal varies over time, and the speech envelope is an attempt
to characterise this variation in the form of an acoustic feature. Although tacitly assumed, the …

A central concern of the cognitive science of language since its origins has been the concept
of the linguistic system. Recent approaches to the system concept in language point to the …

The evolution of human language is a topic that has received undiminished attention.
Numerous hypotheses for the origin of human language have been proposed, including …

The efficiency of informational transfer is one of the key aspects of any communication
system. The informational coding economy of human languages is often demonstrated by …

It is widely known that Yorùbá drummers communicate through their native drums. This
paper investigates the grammar of gángan, which belongs to a family of Yoruba drums …

How well does the information contained in vocal signals travel through the environment?
To assess the efficiency of information transfer in little auk (Alle alle, an Arctic seabird) calls …

Music beats spoken language in identifying individuals uniquely in two disparate
communities. In addition to their given names, which conform to the conventions of their …