Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the hum

This book explores the origin and evolution of speech. The human speech system is in a league of its own in the animal kingdom and its possession dwarfs most ot

Offers a new model of vocal tract articulation that explains laryngeal and oral voice quality, both auditorily and visually, through language examples and famil

Easy to follow, simple to understand, broad yet concise coverage - this fundamental introduction now has more study questions and tasks.

Despite the many well-documented similarities -- genetic, cognitive, behavioral, social -- between our human selves and our evolutionary forebears, a significan