title: [Comparison of species-specific bird sound signals and human speech sounds].
abstract: We carried out a comparative study of spectral-prosodic characteristics of bird vocalization and human speech. Comparison was made between the relative characteristics of the fundamental frequency and spectral maxima. Criteria were formulated for the comparison of bird's signals and human speech. A certain correspondence was found between the vocal structures of birds and humans. It was proposed that in the course of evolution, man adopted the main structural principles of his acoustic signalling from birds.
authors.affiliation: Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 117071 Russia.
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Il'ichev
authors.forename: O L
authors.initials: OL
authors.lastname: Silaeva
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013016:Sound; D013045:Species Specificity; D013060:Speech
vernacular_title: Sopostavlenie vidovykh signalov ptits i rechevykh signalov cheloveka.