Unlike our primate cousins, many species of bird share with humans a capacity for vocal
learning, a crucial factor in speech acquisition. There are striking behavioural, neural and …

Computer simulation has recently been adopted into the research of language evolution. As
a general review to linguists, we discuss in this paper: why we need computer simulation in …

Este libro trata de una parte de la ética humana, la que se refiere a nuestras obligaciones
con los animales. Si en la actualidad conviviéramos con humanos de otras especies menos …

From the biological perspective human musicality is the term referred to as a set of abilities
which enable the recognition and production of music. Since music is a complex …

Music and speech are both auditory communicative phenomena which may have a common
evolutionary origin. Both Pinker and Patel have proposed that the 'rule-governed …

Introduction This paper provides proof of concept that neurolinguistic research on human
language syntax would benefit greatly by expanding its scope to include evolutionary …

Pitch syntax is an important part of musical syntax. It is a complex hierarchical system that
involves generative production and perception based on pitch. Because hierarchical …

Fitch [8] advances the “Dendrophilia Hypothesis” that “humans have a multi-domain capacity
and proclivity to infer tree structures from strings, to a degree that is difficult or impossible for …

I argue that the ability to compute phrase structure grammars is indicative of a particular kind
of thought. This type of thought that is only available to cognitive systems that have access to …

Given the latest findings that multimodality in non-human communication is the norm in
species and given the assumption of continuity, genetic, epigenetic, developmental …