Speech: A Natural History
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This study traces the evolution of the signal calls of anthropoid apes and early hominins to the vocalized phonic utterances of speech. Amongst other aspects, the study innovatively discusses: • the isomeric evolution of the signal call by the recording of the signal’s frequency components, • the acoustic origin of the syllable, • the emergence of vowels from an indeterminate, collective vocalized tonal matrix, • the interval and intervalic subdivision as the common trait uniting dance, scalar melody and syllabic-prosodic speech, and • the coevolution of music and speech The website is: Speech-ANaturalHistory.com
Francisco Gaona , BA in History, Arts & Letters (1953), Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Ph.D. in Philosophy (1964), Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany. Previously Instructor of intensive beginning Spanish summer course at American Graduate School of International Studies (AIFT), Glendale, Arizona, USA (one summer course and one full semester). Sabbatical year in Bergamo, Italy (1975-76). He is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Linguistics of the Department of Foreign Languages at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, USA (1964-2004). Distinguished Professor Award 1977, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, USA. Publication: Basic Spanish (independent programmed learning adapted to computer use), published by Independent Learning Systems, San Rafael, California, in print 1971-1987