Oller D Kimbrough
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Memphis,Memphis, TN
Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Dec;37(6):567-8; discussion 577-604. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13004159.
Early human vocal development is characterized first by emerging control of phonation and later by prosodic and supraglottal articulation. The target article has missed the opportunity to use these facts in the characterization of evolution in language-specific brain mechanisms. Phonation appears to be the initial human-specific brain change for language, and it was presumably a key target of selection in early hominin evolution.
人类早期的语音发展首先表现为对发声控制的逐渐出现,随后是韵律和喉上发音。目标文章未能利用这些事实来描述特定语言脑机制的进化。发声似乎是人类语言特有的最初脑变化,大概也是早期原始人类进化中选择的关键目标。