title: Why vocal production of atypical sounds in apes and its cerebral correlates have a lot to say about the origin of language.
abstract: Ackermann et al. mention the "acquisition of species-atypical sounds" in apes without any discussion. In our commentary, we demonstrate that these atypical sounds in chimpanzees not only include laryngeal sounds, but also have a major significance regarding the origins of language, if we consider looking at their context of use, their social properties, their relations with gestures, their lateralization, and their neurofunctional correlates as well.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, UMR7290,Aix-Marseille University - CNRS, Brain and Language Research Institute,13331 Marseille,France.adrien.meguerditchian@univ-amu.frhttp://gsite.univ-provence.fr/gsite/document.php?pagendx=12531&project=lpc.
authors.forename: Adrien
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meguerditchian
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Physics,Kennesaw State University,Kennesaw, GA 30144.jtaglial@kennesaw.eduhttp://science.kennesaw.edu/~jtaglial/Taglialatela_-_Ape_Communication_Lab/Home.html.
authors.forename: Jared P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Taglialatela
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Sussex,Falmer BN1 9QH, England,United Kingdom.davidl@sussex.ac.ukhttp://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/114996.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Leavens
authors.affiliation: Division of Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience,Yerkes National Primate Research Center,Atlanta, GA 30329.whopkin@emory.edu.
authors.forename: William D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Hopkins
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology*; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*