Re: OT: Non-Human Phonology
| From: | Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 0:08 |
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Hi Rob,
On Wednesday 17 May 2006, Yahya Abdal-Aziz wrote:
[snip]
>
> I personally haven't a clue how one could begin to
> organise or classify the wide variety of bird sounds
> in a purely phonological way, except for the fairly
> obvious dimensions, such as frequency range, song
> duration, phrasal variety etc. But these are the
> exact ways in which I would think of them a musical
> material ... that may say something about their po-
> tential linguistic uses?
>
> Best of luck with your anthroposaurs, Rob!
It occurred to me that perhaps some of the
techniques of *data mining* might apply to
a search for patterns in birdsong, or crocsong,
or whatever ... See eg http://tinyurl.com/z7zp2
at whatis.com for some notions. More in-depth,
with plenty of tantalising links, is wikipedia's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining.
Do let's know what comes of your efforts!
Regards,
Yahya
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