Assertion: neanderthal | /r/CapableOf | speech
Facets:
value: anatomically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The 1983 discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid bone—used in speech production in humans—in Kebara 2 which is almost identical to that of humans suggests Neanderthals were capable of speech, and the ancestral Sima de los Huesos hominins had humanlike hyoid and ear bones, which could suggest the early evolution of the modern human vocal apparatus.
text: They were also capable of speech, but recent physiological discoveries indicate that their voices were high pitched and nasal
text: It is not known whether Neanderthals were anatomically capable of speech and whether they actually spoke.
text: Although the original excavators claimed that the similarity of this bone with that of living humans implied Neanderthals were anatomically capable of speech, it is not possible to reconstruct the vocal tract with information supplied by the hyoid.