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The phonology of sperm whale coda vowels

2025-06-10

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> In previous research, sperm whale codas (structured series of clicks used for communication) have been shown to resemble human vowels acoustically. Based on the number of formants, two different coda quality categories have been described: a -codas and i -codas. In the present paper, we demonstrate that sperm whale codas not only resemble human vowels acoustically, but also pattern like them...

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a6531db1-23a4-56a7-859c-ddc3b6429998
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10.1101/2025.06.09.658556
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