Cat phonemes
| From: | Matthew Martin <matthewdeanmartin@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 18, 2007, 16:42 |
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Hi, I'm putting together a catlang
(http://www.suburbandestiny.com/?p=302). I'd like my catlang to be
restricted to phonemes that real house cats actually use. (And yes, I
know real cats use them in the context of instinctive signals, not
human like language and probably can't use their phonemes to create or
learn new words)
In my references I have to links that say linguists have identified
15-23 phonemes [1] [2] that cats use-- but unfortunately no tidy
lists, at least none I can find for free on the net.
I have a lousy ear for IPA sounds, especially outside of my native
tongue, can anyone on the list suggest a list of IPA phonemes that
they have heard cats use?
May thanks to all, err, kthxbai,
Matthew Martin
References
[1] http://www.messybeast.com/cat_talk.htm
[2]
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9556(194404)57%3A2%3C184%3AVITHAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage
[3] http://www.suburbandestiny.com/?p=302
(I hope this doesn't double post, it is taking me about 5+ tries to
get the mailing list to accept this)
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