DIFFERENCES THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE - DO LOCUS EQUATIONS RESULT FROM PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES CHARACTERIZING ALL MAMMALIAN VOCAL TRACTS - OPEN PEER COMMENTARY
Wt. Fitch et Md. Hauser, DIFFERENCES THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE - DO LOCUS EQUATIONS RESULT FROM PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES CHARACTERIZING ALL MAMMALIAN VOCAL TRACTS - OPEN PEER COMMENTARY, Behavioral and brain sciences, 21(2), 1998, pp. 264
Sussman and colleagues provide no evidence supporting their claim that
the human vocal production system is specialized. to produce locus eq
uations with high correlations and linearity. We propose the alternati
ve null hypothesis that these features result from physical and physio
logical factors common to all mammalian vocal tracts and we recommend
caution in assuming that human speech production mechanisms are unique
.