The vocal sounds of humans -- laughing, crying, and the babbling of babies -- have the same rhythmic quality as the sounds made by many mammals, songbirds, and even some species of fish. Researchers ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1977), pp. 291-302 (12 pages) 1. Attenuation of white noise and pure tones from 350 Hz to 10 kHz was measured at three secondary forest sites in ...

There are many things that set humans apart from other animals, but few of them are as notable as our ability to communicate. Sure, most animals are able to make noises, and many of them can send ...

There have been a few really fascinating studies of vocalization in cattle over the years; they are social herd animals who need to communicate with each other, and they prefer to do so vocally. New ...

A new study has focused on how babies start speaking, and how 9 to 13-month-old babies tackle the shift from early babbling to the use of combinations of gestures and speech. Asier Romero-Andonegi, ...

MIT researchers have discovered a brain circuit that drives vocalization and ensures that you talk only when you breathe out, and stop talking when you breathe in. The newly discovered circuit ...

We’re all familiar with a raspy hen yelp and a thundering tom gobble. But wild hens and gobblers make many turkey sounds beyond these two vocalizations. Each of these sounds express specific meanings.

In biblical scholarship there still prevails a strong tendency to regard the vocalization of the Bible as superfluous and to consider the vocalization of those forms which phonologically or ...