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Phonetics, Phonology and Typology of Whistled Languages

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By considerably expanding the range of involved languages, our study not only reveals the significant diversity of the phenomenon but also offers the possibility of tracing its essential typological distinctions and their implications for both speech processing and phonology.

The original version of this chapter contained errors which have been corrected. These are detailed in the erratum to be found under DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-45837-2_10

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45837-2_10

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Notes

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    Excluding palatalized consonants, as well as [f, h, j] and the affricates that are not studied by Leroy.

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    When looking at intervocalic positions.

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    In some rare cases, the high locus can be associated with a falling-rising transition pair transition when a dental consonant is coarticulated with /i/ and when the whistler is whistling strongly enough to cover a great distance (see the example of [si] of [εðaksi] in Fig. 1.1). Here, the vowel /i/, which is always high in frequency, is whistled extra high due to a special effort and the amplitude-frequency coupling in whistles.

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    We thank Dr. Ridouane for help in transcribing our corpus.

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Meyer, J. (2015). Phonetics, Phonology and Typology of Whistled Languages. In: Whistled Languages. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45837-2_7

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