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Introduction and Historical Sketch
In 1948 Language published an article by COWAN [25] of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, in which he explained how the Mazateco Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico, communicate both at close quarters and at a distance b...
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Physics of the Signal; Range
All whistled languages share one basic characteristic: they function by varying the frequency of a simple wave-form as a function of time, generally with minimal dynamic variations (but see COWAN [25]), which ...
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Whistling in the Animal Kingdom
Numerous animal species are equipped with acoustical communication systems [11–75]. Over the last 25 years or so many investigations, often in depth, have led to a fair understanding of their acoustic behavior...
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Ecology
No matter how the question is approached, we cannot discover any obvious relationship between the various populations which use the whistled languages described here, and one can only conclude that these are e...
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The Mechanism of Whistle Production
As far as can be ascertained, the mechanism of whistle production by the human mouth, except in the case of the bilabial method, has failed to attract the attention of physicists. A brief discussion of the que...
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Extra-Linguistic Information Contents of the Signal
Communication systems may carry, in addition to the semantic contents of the message, certain items of information automatically encoded by the sender and perceived and analyzed more or less passively by the r...
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Conclusions
It will no doubt have been noticed that not once throughout this monograph have whistled languages been referred to as speech surrogates. In the opinion of the present writers there is nothing to recommend the...
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Phonology and Phonetics of Whistled Speech
It was mentioned before that the techniques of whistling impose so many constraints and restrictions upon the articulation of speech sounds as they are usually performed in normal communication that a one-to-o...
