Reducing language to rhythm: Amazonian Bora drummed language exploits speech rhythm for long-distance communication

Frank Seifart (1, 2) , Julien Meyer (3, 4) , Sven Grawunder (5, 6) , Laure Dentel (7)

1 DDL - Dynamique Du Langage
2 UvA - University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam
3 GIPSA-VSLD - GIPSA - Voix Systèmes Linguistiques et Dialectologie
4 MPEG - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Belém, Brésil]
5 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology [Leipzig]
6 CAU - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel = Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel = Université Christian-Albrechts de Kiel
7 LeMondeSiffle - Research Association The World Whistles [Paris]

Mots clés: intervocalic duration; talking drums; speech rhythm; Amazonia; Bora language

Domaines: Linguistique; Linguistique; Psychologie

Frank Seifart, Julien Meyer, Sven Grawunder, Laure Dentel. Reducing language to rhythm: Amazonian Bora drummed language exploits speech rhythm for long-distance communication. Royal Society Open Science, 2018, 5 (4), pp.170354. ⟨10.1098/rsos.170354⟩. ⟨hal-01968842⟩