Evidence of a Vocalic Proto-System in the Baboon (Papio papio) Suggests Pre-Hominin Speech Precursors

• Louis-Jean Boë,

  Affiliation GIPSA-Lab, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Grenoble Alpes University, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France

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• Frédéric Berthommier,

  Affiliation GIPSA-Lab, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Grenoble Alpes University, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France

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• Thierry Legou,

  Affiliations Speech and Language Laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, Brain and Language Research Institute, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France

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• Guillaume Captier,

  Affiliation Anatomy Laboratory, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France

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• Caralyn Kemp,

  Affiliations Brain and Language Research Institute, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

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• Thomas R. Sawallis,

  Affiliation New College, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America

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• Yannick Becker,

  Affiliation Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

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• Arnaud Rey,

  Affiliations Brain and Language Research Institute, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

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• Joël Fagot

  * E-mail: joel.fagot@univ-amu.fr

  Affiliations Brain and Language Research Institute, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

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