Life of p: A consonant older than speech

Lameira, Adriano R.; Moran, Steven

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“…Por sua vez, Francisco Lameira e Vitor Serrão demonstraram a inconveniência em "fazer corresponder uma conjuntura artística a um reinado, na medida em que essa realidade não é aplicável nem aos monarcas anteriores nem aos posteriores" 49 . Dessa maneira, esses últimos pesquisadores propuseram a nomenclatura "Barroco Final" para a talha ornamental portuguesa confeccionada entre 1713-1746 50 . Distingue-se, entretanto, que a permanência do termo Estilo Joanino, alusivo à produção da ornamentação sacra luso-brasileira, não objetiva limitar, exclusivamente, à operação de um Rei à influência da arte no espaço metropolitano e de sua então Colônia, tampouco atribuir ao seu reinado a autoria do glossário artístico produzido, pois fatores diversos contribuíram para nutri-lo, tendo em vista que feições formais vulgarizadas nesse ciclo são identificadas em obras anteriores e posteriores ao período de seu governo.…”

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Thoughts on the Joanine Style in 18th-Century Luso-Brazilian Religious Decorations

Pedrosa

2023

Rev. IHGB

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The article aims to stimulate reflections on the gilded and polychrome woodwork of the Joanine Style found in 18th-century Luso-Brazilian churches and chapels. It begins with an overview of the cultural and artistic context fostered by the patronage of Dom João V (1689-1750), whose actions brought about changes in the Portuguese art scene, influencing Brazil. Through the analysis of these aspects, the article examines the influence of Portuguese art on Brazilian religious decoration between approximately 1720-1760. It highlights the presumed means used to enrich the formal repertoire of executed works, the formal characterization of remaining pieces, and the involvement of various artists involved in this process. Within this scope, the article also prompts reflections on the wooden ornamentation of the Joanine style in Brazil, a theme that is still insufficiently researched.

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Thoughts on the Joanine Style in 18th-Century Luso-Brazilian Religious Decorations

Pedrosa

2023

Rev. IHGB

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Correcting the record: Phonetic potential of primate vocal tracts and the legacy of Philip Lieberman (1934−2022)

Ekström

2024

American J Primatol

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The phonetic potential of nonhuman primate vocal tracts has been the subject of considerable contention in recent literature. Here, the work of Philip Lieberman (1934−2022) is considered at length, and two research papers—both purported challenges to Lieberman's theoretical work—and a review of Lieberman's scientific legacy are critically examined. I argue that various aspects of Lieberman's research have been consistently misinterpreted in the literature. A paper by Fitch et al. overestimates the would‐be “speech‐ready” capacities of a rhesus macaque, and the data presented nonetheless supports Lieberman's principal position—that nonhuman primates cannot articulate the full extent of human speech sounds. The suggestion that no vocal anatomical evolution was necessary for the evolution of human speech (as spoken by all normally developing humans) is not supported by phonetic or anatomical data. The second challenge, by Boë et al., attributes vowel‐like qualities of baboon calls to articulatory capacities based on audio data; I argue that such “protovocalic” properties likely result from disparate articulatory maneuvers compared to human speakers. A review of Lieberman's scientific legacy by Boë et al. ascribes a view of speech evolution (which the authors term “laryngeal descent theory”) to Lieberman, which contradicts his writings. The present article documents a pattern of incorrect interpretations of Lieberman's theoretical work in recent literature. Finally, the apparent trend of vowel‐like formant dispersions in great ape vocalization literature is discussed with regard to Lieberman's theoretical work. The review concludes that the “Lieberman account” of primate vocal tract phonetic capacities remains supported by research: the ready articulation of fully human speech reflects species‐unique anatomy.

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Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant-like versus vowel-like calls

Gannon,

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Lameira

2023

Sci Rep

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Africa’s paleo-climate change represents an “ecological black-box” along the evolutionary timeline of spoken language; a vocal hominid went in and, millions of years later, out came a verbal human. It is unknown whether or how a shift from forested, dense habitats towards drier, open ones affected hominid vocal communication, potentially setting stage for speech evolution. To recreate how arboreal proto-vowels and proto-consonants would have interacted with a new ecology at ground level, we assessed how a series of orangutan voiceless consonant-like and voiced vowel-like calls travelled across the savannah. Vowel-like calls performed poorly in comparison to their counterparts. Only consonant-like calls afforded effective perceptibility beyond 100 m distance without requiring repetition, as is characteristic of loud calling behaviour in nonhuman primates, typically composed by vowel-like calls. Results show that proto-consonants in human ancestors may have enhanced reliability of distance vocal communication across a canopy-to-ground ecotone. The ecological settings and soundscapes experienced by human ancestors may have had a more profound impact on the emergence and shape of spoken language than previously recognized.

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Life of p: A consonant older than speech

Cited by 4 publications

References 48 publications

Thoughts on the Joanine Style in 18th-Century Luso-Brazilian Religious Decorations

Thoughts on the Joanine Style in 18th-Century Luso-Brazilian Religious Decorations

Correcting the record: Phonetic potential of primate vocal tracts and the legacy of Philip Lieberman (1934−2022)

Open plains are not a level playing field for hominid consonant-like versus vowel-like calls

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