Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Open Peer Commentary

About juvenility, the features of feminine speech, and a big leap


Pierre Liénard a1 p.lienard@qub.ac.uk
a1 Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO 63130.

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Abstract

In this commentary, I ask three specific questions: (1) Why would a juvenile stage be maintained in humans? (2) What could be a satisfactory evolutionary scenario explaining the features of feminine speech? And (3), what could be the contribution of sexual selection in the elicitation of higher informational contents in communicative signals?