The world's spoken languages are universally composed of vowels and consonants, but the primate prototypical call repertoire is almost exclusively composed of vowel-like calls. What was the origin of consonant-like calls? Their prevalence across great apes suggests that an arboreal lifestyle and extractive foraging were ecological preconditions for speech evolution.
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Lameira, A. R. (2023, February 1). Arboreal origin of consonants and thus, ultimately, speech. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Elsevier Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.11.012
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