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A phonetic pilot study of chirp, chatter, tweet and tweedle in three domestic cats

Author

Editor

  • Robert Eklund

Summary, in English

This study collected 257 vocalisations from three domestic cats when they were watching birds through the window. The sounds were subdivided into the types chatter, chirp, tweet and tweedle, and analysed for duration and F0. Variation was found within and between these types as well as within and between the three cats in both duration and F0. A tentative taxonomy of prey-observing cat vocalisations is suggested based on words used for bird sounds.

Department/s

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

65-68

Publication/Series

[Host publication title missing]

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Linköping University

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • cat vocalisations
  • felid vocalisations

Conference name

Fonetik 2013

Conference date

2013-06-12 - 2013-06-13

Conference place

Linköping, Sweden

Status

Published

Project

  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning