Anatomical structures involved in non-human vocalization
- In order to understand the functional morphology of the human voice producing system, we are in need of data on the vocal tract anatomy of other mammalian species. The larynges and vocal tracts of four species of Artiodactyla were investigated in combination with acoustic analyses of their respective calls. Different evolutionary specializations of laryngeal characters may lead to similar effects on sound production. In the investigated species, such specializations are: the elongation and mass increase of the vocal folds, the volume increase of the laryngeal vestibulum by an enlarged thyroid cartilage and the formation of laryngeal ventricles. Both the elongation of the vocal folds and the increase of the oscillating masses lower the fundamental frequency. The influence of an increased volume of the laryngeal vestibulum on sound production remains unclear. The anatomical and acoustic results are presented together with considerations about the habitats and the mating systems of the respective species.
Author: | Alban Gebler, Roland Frey |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309244 |
URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/191.html?&L=1%2527%252band%252bchar%28124%29%25252Buser%25252Bchar%28124%29%25253D0%252band%252b%2527%2527%25253D%2527 |
ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
Parent Title (English): | Speech production and perception : experimental analyses and models / editors Susanne Fuchs, Pascal Perrier and Bernd Pompino-Marschall, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung (Berlin): ZAS papers in linguistics ; Vol. 40 (2005) |
Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
GND Keyword: | Biolinguistik; Evolutionstheorie; Artikulation; Kehlkopf; Stimmband; Artikulator |
Volume: | 40 |
Page Number: | 11 |
First Page: | 33 |
Last Page: | 43 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 381257916 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Biolinguistik / Biolinguistics | |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 40 = Speech production and perception : Experimental analyses and models |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306823 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |