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	'''William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch III''' (born 1963)<ref name="archive.today/XESqM">http://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/FitchCV2011.pdf {{Bare URL PDF\|date=March 2022}}</ref> is an American [[evolutionary biologist]] and [[cognitive scientist]] at the [[University of Vienna]] ([[Vienna, Austria]]) where he is co-founder of the Department of Cognitive Biology.		'''William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch III''' (born 1963)<ref name="archive.today/XESqM">http://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/FitchCV2011.pdf {{Bare URL PDF\|date=March 2022}}</ref> is an [[American]] [[evolutionary biologist]] and [[cognitive scientist]] at the [[University of Vienna]] (Vienna, Austria) where he is co-founder of the Department of Cognitive Biology.

	Fitch studies the biology and evolution of cognition and communication in humans and other animals, and in particular the evolution of speech, language and music. His work concentrates on comparative approaches as advocated by [[Charles Darwin]] (i.e., the study of [[Homology (biology)\|homologous]] and [[Convergent evolution\|analogous]] structures and processes in a wide range of [[species]]).		Fitch studies the biology and evolution of cognition and communication in humans and other animals, and in particular the evolution of speech, language and music. His work concentrates on comparative approaches as advocated by [[Charles Darwin]] (i.e., the study of [[Homology (biology)\|homologous]] and [[Convergent evolution\|analogous]] structures and processes in a wide range of [[species]]).

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			'''William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch III''' (born 1963)<ref name="archive.today/XESqM">http://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/FitchCV2011.pdf {{Bare URL PDF\|date=March 2022}}</ref> is an American [[evolutionary biologist]] and [[cognitive scientist]] at the [[University of Vienna]] ([[Vienna, Austria]]) where he is co-founder of the Department of Cognitive Biology.

			Fitch studies the biology and evolution of cognition and communication in humans and other animals, and in particular the evolution of speech, language and music. His work concentrates on comparative approaches as advocated by [[Charles Darwin]] (i.e., the study of [[Homology (biology)\|homologous]] and [[Convergent evolution\|analogous]] structures and processes in a wide range of [[species]]).

			Fitch was born in [[Boston]]<ref name="archive.today/XESqM" /> and received his [[Bachelor of Arts\|B.A.]] (1986) in biology and his [[Ph.D.]] (1994) in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences from [[Brown University]]. From 1996 to 2000, he worked as a [[postdoctoral fellow]] at [[MIT]] and [[Harvard University]]. He was a lecturer at [[Harvard University]] and a reader at the [[University of St Andrews]], before moving to a professorship at the [[University of Vienna]] in 2009.

			He bears the name of his third-generation great-grandfather, Civil War General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], as did his father and [[T. S. Fitch\|grandfather]] before him.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Why monkeys can't talk—and what they would sound like if they could \|url=https://www.science.org/content/article/why-monkeys-can-t-talk-and-what-they-would-sound-if-they-could \|access-date=2022-04-06 \|website=www.science.org \|language=en}}</ref>

			== Ability of monkeys to speak ==

			Fitch and colleagues used x-ray recordings of a macaque monkey named Emiliano producing various sounds to make a model of Emiliano's vocal tract. The model showed that a macaque could produce a variety of vowel and non-vowel phonemes adequate for intelligible speech. In a simulation, "Emiliano" said "Will you marry me?" in a recognizable manner, demonstrating that the anatomy of monkeys does not limit them from producing complex speech. In conclusion, Fitch stated that "If a human brain were in control, they could talk".<ref>{{Cite web\|url = https://www.geek.com/culture/why-monkeys-cant-speak-like-us-1683380/\|title = Why Monkeys Can't Speak Like Us?\|date = 2016-12-21\|access-date = 2018-04-15\|archive-date = 2018-06-17\|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180617115524/https://www.geek.com/culture/why-monkeys-cant-speak-like-us-1683380/\|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \| url=https://www.science.org/content/article/why-monkeys-can-t-talk-and-what-they-would-sound-if-they-could-rev2 \|title = Why monkeys can't talk—and what they would sound like if they could\|date = 2016-12-09}}</ref>

			== Bibliography ==
			* Fitch, W. T. (2010) The Evolution of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
			* Fitch, W. T. (1997). "[http://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Fitch1997JASA.pdf Vocal tract length and formant frequency dispersion correlate with body size in rhesus macaques]," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102: 1213–1222.
			* Fitch, W. T. (2000). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20171212193102/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4dc5/174911ea7c074f7706f0e067520c738b615f.pdf The evolution of speech: a comparative review]," Trends Cog. Sci. 4, 258–267.
			* Fitch, W.T. and D. Reby (2001), "[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1088793/pdf/PB011669.pdf The descended larynx is not uniquely human]". Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 268(1477): 1669–1675.
			* [[Marc Hauser\|Hauser, M. D.]], [[Noam Chomsky\|Chomsky, N.]] & Fitch, W. T. (2002). "The Language Faculty: What is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?" Science 298: 1569–1579.
			* Fitch, W. T., & [[Marc Hauser\|Hauser, M. D.]] (2004). "[http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~larry/music1052008/grad_student_readings/sievers/Primate_Constraints.pdf Computational constraints on syntactic processing in a nonhuman primate]". Science 303: 377–380.
			* Fitch, W. T. (2005). "[http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/courses/hg19/fitch.pdf The evolution of language: A comparative review] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809040534/http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/courses/hg19/fitch.pdf \|date=2017-08-09 }}," Biology and Philosophy 20: 193–230.
			* Fitch, W. T. (2006). "[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/22879985.pdf The biology and evolution of music: A comparative perspective] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026021848/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/22879985.pdf \|date=2017-10-26 }}," Cognition 100: 173–215.

			== See also ==
			* [[Biolinguistics]]
			* [[Biomusicology]]
			* [[Cognitive biology]]
			* [[Comparative psychology]]
			* [[Digital infinity]]
			* [[Larynx#Descended larynx\|Descended larynx]]
			* [[Evolutionary psychology]]
			* [[Hoover (seal)]]
			* [[Origin of language]]
			* [[Origin of speech]]
			* [[Origin of music]]
			* [[Vocal learning]]

			== References ==
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			== External links ==
			* [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch/ Homepage of W. Tecumseh Fitch] at homepage.univie.ac.at
			* [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1136 Darwin's Theory of Music and Language Evolution]
			* [http://nubes.esof2010.org/stored?vid=95 Science at the interfaces: the biology of music and language] — a keynote speech at the [[EuroScience]] Open Forum (ESOF) 2010 in [[Torino]]

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