Re: Neanderthals are speaking up - or at least a computer synthesiser is doing so on their behalf.

Jack Linthicum wrote:
"They would have spoken a bit differently. They wouldn't have been
able to produce these quantal vowels that form the basis of spoken
language," Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic
University in Boca Raton says. Neanderthals would not distinguish
between "beat" and "bit", but probably would not notice.

Either The New Scientist has lost all standards or ... WAIT FOR IT ... this the creation of a science writer.

>Neanderthals speak out after 30,000 years

> * Ewen Callaway

By George it is by a science writer.

Now more than a few have said I am slow on the uptake and have to take things real slow but it seems to me the only vocalizations this could approximate are those in the throat. But if I missed someone finding one in a bog with preserved tongue and lips someone please give me a url. Without those it is very difficult to imagine how anything could be even approximated as those form almost all the sounds.

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