Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprint
Measurement and comparison of acoustic space use in vocalizations of humans and close primate relatives
Hans Bilger, Michael J. Ryan, Julia A. Clarke
The paper compares acoustic space use in human and primate vocalizations, finding speech and song occupy less acoustic space than non-linguistic human vocalizations and are not distinct from non-human primates.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.14.732185