Environmental and Linguistic Typology of Whistled Languages: Audio 2b

14/01/2021 0 min
Environmental and Linguistic Typology of Whistled Languages: Audio 2b

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Audio 2b, corresponding to Figure 2b: Spectrogram of the (a) whistled and (b) spoken Greek sentence Kαλως´ ηρθατε ´ , τι θελετ ε ´ [kɑlɔs irθɑtɛ ti θɛlɛtɛ] ‘You are welcome, what do you want?’. Here, the whistled form consists of the emulation of the quality of spoken vowels and consonants (formant-based whistling). Figure adapted from Meyer (2015).