Typology and acoustic strategies of whistled languages: Phonetic comparison and perceptual cues of whistled vowels
@article{Meyer2008TypologyAA, title={Typology and acoustic strategies of whistled languages: Phonetic comparison and perceptual cues of whistled vowels}, author={J. Meyer}, journal={Journal of the International Phonetic Association}, year={2008}, volume={38}, pages={69-94} }
Whistled speech is a complementary natural style of speech to be found in more than thirty languages of the world. This phenomenon, also called ‘whistled language’, enables distant communication amid the background noise of rural environments. Whistling is used as a sound source instead of vocal fold vibration. The resulting acoustic signal is characterised by a narrow band of frequencies encoding the words. Such a strong reduction of the frequency spectrum of the voice explains why whistled… CONTINUE READING
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