Re: musical talk? (sally)

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:19:35 -0400, Baba <fikhduv@...>
wrote:

>Great idiots, er minds, think alike ;-) I'd an idea for a cat-like
>alien who'd dual vocal chords so the 'tonal' languages of that world
>used  pitch, as chinese does, to distinguish homophones, while the
>interval carried other info like "formality" fer' instance. ;-)
That would be a good language for birds. The syrinx of a bird can produce
two notes at once, which you can hear in slowed-down recordings of some
bird songs (the Veery and related thrushes have a really intricate =
harmonic
progression) and even at normal speed in some birds (some kind of =
penguin,
I don't remember which).