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Eliciting and Analyzing Male Mouse Ultrasonic Vocalization (USV) Songs
Published on: May 9, 2017
[Comparison of species-specific bird sound signals and human speech sounds]
1Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 117071 Russia.
Abstract:
We carried out a comparative study of spectral-prosodic characteristics of bird vocalization and human speech. Comparison was made between the relative characteristics of the fundamental frequency and spectral maxima. Criteria were formulated for the comparison of bird's signals and human speech. A certain correspondence was found between the vocal structures of birds and humans. It was proposed that in the course of evolution, man adopted the main structural principles of his acoustic signalling from birds.
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