• DOI:10.1017/S0140525X98231268
• Corpus ID: 145180611

A new puzzle for the evolution of speech?

@article{Abry1998ANP,
  title={A new puzzle for the evolution of speech?},
  author={Christian Abry and Louis-Jean Bo{\"e} and Rafael Laboissi{\`e}re and Jean-Luc Schwartz},
  journal={Behavioral and Brain Sciences},
  year={1998},
  volume={21},
  pages={512 - 513}
}

• C. Abry, L. Boë, +1 author J. Schwartz
• Published 1 August 1998
• Psychology
• Behavioral and Brain Sciences

We agree with MacNeilage's claim that speech stems from a volitional vocalization pathway between the cingulate and the supplementary motor area (SMA). We add the vocal self- monitoring system as the first recruitment of the Broca-Wernicke circuit. SMA control for “frames” is supported by wrong consonant-vowel recurring utterance aphasia and an imaging study of quasi-reiterant speech. The role of Broca's area is questioned in the emergence of “content,” because a primary motor mapping, embodying peripheral constraints, seems sufficient. Finally, we reject a uniquely peripheral account of speech emergence.