Humans' and macaque monkeys' language production. Similarities with special regards to Broca's area

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Göttingen, language: English, abstract: This paper examines, whether apes share the same feature of the human language system with specials regards to Brocäs area.

The human language system is unique and allows our species to understand and verbally communicate with each other. It consists of complex syntax and semantics and is rooted deeply in the brain and specific areas. The speech area of the human brain is called Brocäs area .

Many neurologists and scientists did studies and researched the composition of the human and the monkey brain. Similarities as well as differences between the species were discovered which will demonstrate the relation between the human species and its early animal ancestors.