>The sound-producing organ in birds (the syrinx) has two separate sources
>of sound; some birds are able to control these independently. So in
>addition to controlling pitch and duration, you might have a distinction
>between single and double sounds. Some birds also have a certain amount
>of control over timbre.
Yes, that's correct. It might be interesting if the anthroposaurs could
control them independently. Having phonemic variations in timbre would be
interesting too. That way, their speech would have something similar to
human vowels. :)
>On the other hand, most of the versatility of bird sounds is in the
>songbirds (oscines), which would have evolved long after birds split
>from (the rest of the) dinosaurs. So you probably should look at the
>sounds made by non-passerine birds like ostriches, turkeys, geese, and
>so on. There's still quite a variety of sounds. I have a page of links
>to animal sounds which hasn't been updated in a while, but some of the
>sites I linked to might still be around.
>
>
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/animals/sound-sites.html
>
>You could also check out the "Crocodile Communication" link. Other than
>birds, crocodilians are the closest thing to dinosaurs that have
>recordings of their sounds available.
>
>
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/brittoncrocs/croccomm.html
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