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Checkup: How can primitive language benefit speech disorder treatments?
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Air date: July 29, 2012
Host: Jeremy Shere, PhD
Studying the roots of human speech may be able to serve as a breakthrough in the future for patients being treated for speech disorders.
Tecumseh Fitch, evolutionary biologist studies the speech patterns and movements of monkeys and has determined that human speech originated in the lip smacks of monkeys.
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- Learn more about the origins of human speech here.
