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Today, Logan Kearsley joins us to talk about whistled registers, and to let us know about his whistle synthesizer that can help you make one.
Links and Resources:
- Meyer, J. 2008. Typology and Acoustic Strategies of Whistled Languages: Phonetic Comparison and Perceptual Cues of Whistled Vowels. Journal of the International Phonetic Association , 38 ,1, pp. 69 – 94, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100308003277
- Rialland, A., 2005. Phonological and phonetic aspects of whistled languages. Phonology, 22(2), pp.237-271.
- Meyer, J., 2007. Whistled Turkish: statistical analysis of vowel distribution and consonant modulations. In XVI International Conference of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 284-288).
Pete Bleackley
When I was little, there was a children’s TV show called The Clangers, which was about crocheted mice from outer space who spoke a whistled form of English (played on slide whistles).
Notoriously, the animators once slipped a rude word into the dialogue, and people spotted it.