Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2025

Whistled Languages and Whistled Speech

Résumé

Whistled languages are secondary speech codes based on whistles anchored to, and derived from, a spoken language thanks to a relation of acoustic iconicity. Whistled languages essentially consist of a complementary/auxiliary modality of speech mostly used for distance communication that is mainly used in language communities maintaining a traditional lifestyle. Indeed, whistles propagate well in natural surroundings. This special speech practice is often called ‘whistled speech’ because its productions maintain and augment some acoustical features of spoken speech while degrading others, to adapt spoken sentences into a simple melodic line modulated in amplitude and frequency.

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hal-05482785 , version 1 (29-01-2026)

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Julien Meyer, David Díaz Reyes, Andre Batchelder-Schwab, Bernard Gautheron. Whistled Languages and Whistled Speech. Reference Module in Social Sciences, Elsevier; Elsevier, 2025, ⟨10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00545-7⟩. ⟨hal-05482785⟩
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