Why does human speech have rhythm? As we cannot travel back in time to witness how
speech developed its rhythmic properties and why humans have the cognitive skills to …

Research on the evolution of human speech and phonology benefits from the comparative
approach: structural, spectral, and temporal features can be extracted and compared across …

Speech is a distinctive feature of our species. It is the default channel for language and
constitutes our primary mode of social communication. Determining the evolutionary origins …

Rhythm perception is fundamental to speech and music. Humans readily recognize a
rhythmic pattern, such as that of a familiar song, independently of the tempo at which it …

Behavioral and brain rhythms in the millisecond-to-second range are central in human
music, speech, and movement. A comparative approach can further our understanding of …

Speech research has typically focused on processing single speech events, that is, vowels,
syllables, or words. A different approach focuses on connected speech. This work points to …

Most research on animal vocal communication analyses frequency measurements on a
linear scale, but the mechanisms of pitch perception and of certain aspects of vocal …

Many animals produce vocal sequences that appear complex. Most researchers assume
that these sequences are well characterized as Markov chains (ie that the probability of a …

Rhythm is a prominent feature of music. Of the infinite possible ways of organizing events in
time, musical rhythms are almost always distributed categorically. Such categories can …

A central goal of biomusicology is to understand the biological basis of human musicality.
One approach to this problem has been to compare core components of human musicality …