Is the singing voice processed distinctively in the human brain? In this Perspective, we
discuss what might distinguish song processing from speech processing in light of recent …

Audio-based kinship verification (AKV) is important in many domains, such as home security
monitoring, forensic identification, and social network analysis. A key challenge in the task …

The genetic influence on human vocal pitch in tonal and non-tonal languages remains
largely unknown. In tonal languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, pitch changes differentiate …

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder primarily
affecting language in the absence of a known biomedical condition, which may have a large …

Language is probably the most distinctive of human traits. We are endowed with a species-
specific capacity for generating complex arrays of symbols that encode equally complex …

Sexual selection shapes the acoustic properties of vertebrate vocalizations, resulting in
sexual dimorphism (Charlton & Reby, 2016). Vocal pitch, determined by vocal fold vibration …

This study is the first exploration of data collected with the smartphone-app Plapper with
which participants from Germany recorded themselves reading several sentences …

How do caregivers fine-tune their speech when interacting with infants? Do these potential
modulations support infants' language development? In this dissertation, Rosslund and …

Genetic data have for over 20 years been recognized as one of the most promising avenues
for empirical language evolution research (Christiansen & Kirby, 2003; Fisher, 2017; Fitch …

I Tidsskriftet nr. 2/1966 finnes et brev med noen refleksjoner rundt medisinsk reklame. Knut
Næss tar for seg tre forskjellige annonser som på hver sin måte skapte oppstyr, og er kritisk …