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Journal/Book: Behav Brain Sci. 1998; 21: 40 West 20TH Street, New York, NY 10011-4211. Cambridge Univ Press. 525-526.

Abstract: There is not enough reason to believe that syllables are primacy in speech and evolved from the cyclic movements of chewing. There are many differences between chewing and speech and it is equally plausible that what is primary in speech is a succession of auditorily robust modulations of various acoustic parameters (amplitude, periodicity, spectrum, pitch); syllables could have evolved from this.

Note: Editorial Ohala JJ, Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Linguist, Berkeley,CA 94720 USA

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