Birds and humans share fundamental song and speech patterns, study finds
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Science Writing, 29 Oct (EFE).- Birds and people are not as different as they may seem a priori. A study collected this Thursday in Science magazine finds that the speech and singing of both of them share almost the same patterns, such as vocal coordination or variations adapted to the social context. [...] La entrada Birds and people: same patterns when speaking and singing was first published in HolaNews.
Birds and humans share fundamental song and speech patterns, study finds
McGill University researchers have identified "universal" vocal patterns across hundreds of bird species and found that many of the same patterns also appear in human song and speech from cultures around the world. The patterns include small pitch intervals, regular and predictable rhythms, and phrase-final elongation, in which the last utterance in a phrase tends to be longer than the others.
The similarity between the song of birds and human speech is usually associated with the ability to learn sounds. One study shows that even birds born knowing
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