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Re: Mr. Raven, I Presume? Digest Number 4233

Subject: Re: Mr. Raven, I Presume? Digest Number 4233
From: "David Kuhn" dkuhn012001
Date: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:42 am ((PST))
I do find this and your work very interesting Michael--can you say
more about--

"When a native purr is broken at the rate of speech, one has a highly
unusual and complex utterance."

Thanks,
David



--- In  Michael Dalton
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> I thought it was an serendipitous recording. The "quork" is typical
of raven syllables; it is too bad that no one understands the
specific message in what the=A0birds are saying.=A0My work with a parrot
shows similar natural sounds that are adapted to communicate human
words. For example, animals including some birds purr. So I hear my
parrot contentedly purring, and all is well. Yet, she amuses herself
using a variation of a purr to say human words, phrases, and
sentences.
 Most humans are not experienced with such sounds and as a result do
not "hear" the words, which is a disconnect in their brain between
the sound and the stored recognition for the word.=A0I had hoped some
recordists would be interested in these phenomena.
Alas ...=A0MikeFloridaSpeech samples located in tabular form at=A0=A0=A0=A0=

www.ParrotSpeech.com/Another_Mind.html
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