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What makes music and language exclusively human? How do other animals communicate? Do they perceive melodies and rhythms as we do?Acoustic World explores the field of bioacoustics through the voices of scholars around the world.
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Music and Language: two faces of the same coin? - Patrick Savage (opens the original)
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Are music and language really two sides of the same coin? A lullaby sung to a baby and a sentence whispered in the dark may seem like entirely different forms of expression—but could they share the same underlying structure? In this episode, Associate Professor Patrick Savage of Keio University and University of Auckland explores the deep connections between music and language, and how both evolve over time in ways that resemble biological evolution. Drawing on large cross-cultural datasets, we
The hidden rules of sound - Michelle Spierings (opens the original)
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Do humans and animals hear sound in the same way? In this episode of Acoustic World , host Marco Maiolini speaks with Dr. Michelle Spierings , Assistant Professor at Leiden University, about how humans and animals perceive, organize, and interpret sound. Our brains don't simply hear sounds, they automatically group them into patterns that shape how we experience speech, music, and the world around us. But are these perceptual rules uniquely human, or are they shared across other species? Drawing
Following the echoes - Natacha Aguilar de Soto (opens the original)
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🐋 What can rapid clicks from the pitch-black depths of the ocean tell us? In this episode, Professor Natacha Aguilar de Soto (Oceanographic Centre, Tenerife) explains how deep-diving beaked whales and other cetaceans use echolocation to navigate and hunt where light cannot reach. Discover how life in the deep ocean has shaped remarkable acoustic adaptations—and how human-made underwater noise can disrupt them. The featured underwater recordings were made by the University of La Laguna and the Oc
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