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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

John J. Ohala
John J. Ohala
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Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 ohala@cogsci.berkeley.edu trill.berkeley.edu/users/ohala
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Abstract

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There is not enough reason to believe that syllables are primary 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.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 525 - 526
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press