Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, 14 Althanstrasse, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Curr Biol. 2011 Jul 26;21(14):R543-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.06.035.
A language-trained chimpanzee is able to interpret synthetic 'auditory caricatures' as speech. Important components of human speech perception thus rely upon general auditory mechanisms that predated the evolution of spoken language.
经过语言训练的黑猩猩能够将合成的“听觉漫画”解释为语音。因此,人类语音感知的重要组成部分依赖于在口语语言进化之前就存在的一般听觉机制。