Vocal imitation is a key part of how humans learn to speak. New research shows that bats babble to learn and use baby talk to teach, just like people do.
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You wouldn’t think a kazoo could tell you much about the origins of language. But you’d be wrong.
Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn’t look for one worldwide explanation.
Considering language from a biological perspective led researchers to the idea that new food processing technologies affected neolithic human beings’ jaws – and allowed new language sounds to emerge.
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Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich
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Marie Curie Fellow, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews
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Associate Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
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Professor of General Linguistics, University of Zurich
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Behavioral Ecology and Bioacoustics, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
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Postdoctoral research associate, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)