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Human speech follows the same patterns as birdsong — new research

By Logan S. James, Postdoctoral Researcher in Biology, McGill University; The University of Texas at Austin
Jon Sakata, Professor, Department of Biology and Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University
Kendra Oudyk, Master of Library and Information Studies student; Graduate Academic Assistant in Digital Scholarship, University of British Columbia

A new study compares the songs of 367 bird species with song and speech from 52 human languages to reveal shared acoustic patterns.

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