Whistled Languages
A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author's unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonological typology, the cognitive processing of whistled signals, monogenesis and polygenesis scenarios, the hypothesis of a whistled system preceding voiced speech, the intricate relationship between music and language in whistling, and the convergence/dive…
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- ISBN: 978-3-662-45836-5
- EAN: 9783662458365
- Produktnummer: 17223499
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 182 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.6 cm 459 g
- Abbildungen: Book; Bibliographie
- Gewicht: 459
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