• DOI:10.1146/ANNUREV.NEURO.22.1.567
Corpus ID: 1505871

Birdsong and human speech: common themes and mechanisms.

@article{Doupe1999BirdsongAH,
  title={Birdsong and human speech: common themes and mechanisms.},
  author={A. Doupe and P. Kuhl},
  journal={Annual review of neuroscience},
  year={1999},
  volume={22},
  pages={
          567-631
        }
}

A. Doupe, P. Kuhl

Published 1999

Psychology, Medicine

Annual review of neuroscience

Human speech and birdsong have numerous parallels. Both humans and songbirds learn their complex vocalizations early in life, exhibiting a strong dependence on hearing the adults they will imitate, as well as themselves as they practice, and a waning of this dependence as they mature. Innate predispositions for perceiving and learning the correct sounds exist in both groups, although more evidence of innate descriptions of species-specific signals exists in songbirds, where numerous species of… CONTINUE READING

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