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A new Silvereye?

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Subject: A new Silvereye?
From: Paul Taylor <>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:06:06 +1100
On 8/01/2011 4:28 PM, Philip Veerman wrote:
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Sort of sounds interesting. Do others see an unfortunate possible ambiguity here? In that "frequency" has two meanings of relevance. In this case by context it appears to mean how often something occurs in time, not the sound frequency, as in what we hear as pitch. But then again maybe it is both, in the same way that playing a tape faster raises the pitch...........

I don't think there should be any ambiguity, Philip.  The paper uses "frequency"
when referring to differences in pitch, and "syllable rate" for temporal (time)
differences.  Changes in pitch with tape speed is an artifact of the recording
method; a better analogy is the speed of a metronome that a musician plays to.

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