Article: Long-extinct Neanderthals speak out

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London, April 16 -- They've been dead for 30,000 years, but people may soon be able to hear Neanderthals speak, thanks to a computer model developed by researchers at the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

Using 50,000-year old fossils from France, Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton reconstructed Neanderthal vocal tracts to imitate the voice.

He said that Neanderthals' speech lacked the 'quantal vowel' sounds, which are the basis of modern speech.

While making a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Columbus, ...

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