Animal Behaviour, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8051, Zurich, Switzerland; Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
Animal Behaviour, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8051, Zurich, Switzerland; Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2020 Sep;24(9):690-693. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.013. Epub 2020 Jun 25.
Mechanical constraints imposed by anatomical adaptations are a ubiquitous feature of animal sound production. They can give rise to 'vocal predispositions' (i.e., acoustic structures strictly determined by vocal anatomy). Such predispositions are crucial to the investigation of the cognitive and evolutionary processes underlying acoustic communication in vertebrates, including human speech.
解剖结构带来的力学限制是动物发声的普遍特征。这些限制会产生“发声倾向”（即严格由发声解剖结构决定的声学结构）。这种倾向对于研究包括人类言语在内的脊椎动物声音交流背后的认知和进化过程至关重要。
