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Sonograms of female copulatory vocalizations of a human female (top), female baboon (middle), and female gibbon (bottom), [19] with time being plotted on the x-axis and the pitch being represented on the y-axis. In non-human primates, copulatory vocalizations begin towards the end of the copulatory act or even after copulation. [2]
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
Due to the wide range of signal properties and media they propagate through, specialized equipment may be required instead of the usual microphone, such as a hydrophone (for underwater sounds), detectors of ultrasound (very high-frequency sounds) or infrasound (very low-frequency sounds), or a laser vibrometer (substrate-borne vibrational signals).
Vocal learning is the ability to modify acoustic and syntactic sounds, acquire new sounds via imitation, and produce vocalizations. "Vocalizations" in this case refers only to sounds generated by the vocal organ (mammalian larynx or avian syrinx ) as opposed to by the lips, teeth, and tongue, which require substantially less motor control. [ 1 ]
Toothed whale (odontocete) vocal anatomy. Most mammalian species produce sound by passing air from the lungs across the larynx, vibrating the vocal folds. [3] Sound then enters the supralaryngeal vocal tract, which can be adjusted to produce various changes in sound output, providing refinement of vocalizations. [3]
The sound of each individual's voice is thought to be entirely unique [13] not only because of the actual shape and size of an individual's vocal cords but also due to the size and shape of the rest of that person's body, especially the vocal tract, and the manner in which the speech sounds are habitually formed and articulated. (It is this ...
Female copulatory vocalizations, produced by females while mating; Voice (phonetics), the vibration of the vocal cords that accompanies some speech sounds Consonant voicing and devoicing, the addition or removal of this vibration from consonant sounds; Vocalization, the change of a sound into a vowel
Throat singing techniques may be classified under an ethnomusicological approach, which considers cultural aspects, their associations to rituals, religious practices, storytelling, labor songs, vocal games, and other contexts; or a musical approach, which considers their artistic use, the basic acoustical principles, and the physiological and mechanical procedures to learn, train and produce ...