Prosody discrimination by songbirds (Padda oryzivora).

In human verbal communication, not only lexical information, but also paralinguistic information plays an important role in transmitting the speakers' mental state. Paralinguistic information is conveyed mainly through acoustic features like pitch, rhythm, tempo and so on. These acoustic featur...

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Main Authors: Nozomi Naoi, Shigeru Watanabe, Kikuo Maekawa, Junko Hibiya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3474804?pdf=render