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Whalish
A Language of Extremes
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Normal Speech
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wir sind in PRAAT
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Pulses

• Many pulses
• High density
• Usually voiced sounds become voiceless because of
  head-voice

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Loudness Duration

• High variation in loudness
• Stretching of speech sounds

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Intensity

• Relatively low intensity (may depend on our
  recording?)
• Highest intensity 57,6 dB

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Pitch

• Drastic pitch movements
• Some vowels without pitch (because they are
  voiceless)

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Acoustic Energy

• Dark clouds of a-schwa
• ? typical structure of vowels
• Dark clouds of i
• ? hardly resembles a vowel
• Constant energy at the base of the spectrogram
  throughout the whole utterance
• Extremely bright spaces
• ? low energy

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Astrid, Steffie, Johanna Esther