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Journal Article
The evolution of the Lombard effect: 100 years of psychoacoustic research
2011
Overview
Abstract
On the occasion of the centenary of the discovery of the Lombard effect, we
review the literature on noise-dependent regulation of vocal amplitude in
humans and other animals. The article addresses the scientific and the
biological history of the Lombard effect: first, it sketches the evolution
of the study of the Lombard effect, and second it reflects on the biological
evolution of the effect itself. By comparing the findings from anurans,
birds and mammals, we try to trace back the phylogenetic origins of this
basic vocal mechanism for acoustic communication in noise. The current
evidence suggests two alternative parsimonious hypotheses: either the
Lombard effect is the outcome of a convergent evolution in birds and mammals
or it may be a synapomorphy of all amniotes. If the latter is true, then the
Lombard effect would have evolved to maintain vocal communication in the
presence of noise more than 300 million years ago.
