Kimberly Quincy, a first-year graduate student in UW’s Division of Communication Disorders, displays a 3D human larynx model she created using an online software program as part of the Make-IT ...

The evolution of the human larynx contributed to the stable voices we use to communicate. The morphological changes do not include the addition of structures but rather the loss of specific vocal ...

For more than fifty years, scientists have thought that the origin of speech depended on one pivotal moment 200,000 years ago. That’s when the human larynx descended, elongating the vocal tract. Until ...

GRENOBLE, France, Jan. 12 (UPI) --Researchers have previously suggested the low human larynx is essential to human language, as it allows humans to make vowel sounds. The high larynx, or voice box, of ...

The loss of certain muscles in the human larynx may have helped give our species a voice, a new study suggests. By Oliver Whang Read this sentence aloud, if you’re able. As you do, a cascade of motion ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. A new study has found that humans possess language ability due to differences in laryngeal structure compared to other ...