Baboons (IMAGE)

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Baboons

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Baboons raised in semi-liberty produce about ten vocalizations, associated with different ethological situations, that may be considered as proto-vowels, at the dawn of the emergence of speech.

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Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université)

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