J. L. Heim
2007
The vocal tract of newborn humans and Neanderthals: Acoustic capabilities and consequences for the debate on the origin of language. A reply to Lieberman (2007a)doi.orgPDF
Journal of Phonetics 35(4):564--581, 2007
Our work casts doubt on fundamental aspects of Lieberman's theory on emergence of speech and vocal tract architecture. While our results do not show that Neanderthals were able to speak, they show that their vocal tracts would not have prevented them from doing ...