书目名称 | Whistled Languages | 副标题 | A Worldwide Inquiry | 编辑 | Julien Meyer | 视频video | | 概述 | Timely and comprehensive book on whistled languages.Shows the interests of whistled languages for various other domains than sciences of language, such as bio-acoustics, ecology, telecommunication, mu | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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/divergence with whistled communication among animals (birds, dolphins and primates)..This book also includes several documents and a chapter prepared in collaboration with René-Guy Busnel, a pioneer in the studies of whistled forms of languages who has worked with five different populations using whistled speech (from the late 60s to the early90s)..The author has been intensively studying this fascinating language practice for the past 12 years, including 30 months of onsite research in collaboration with the cultural representatives of approximat | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | 关键词 | bioacoustics; communication; linguistics; whistled languages; whistled speech | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45837-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-662-50735-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-662-45837-2 | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 |
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