This is fucking cool. Basically they’ve identified some discrete acoustic signatures of sperm whale vocalizations, and they argue that these represent (3?) possible phonemes, and that some variation in articulation is explained by phonology
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CETI scientists led by CETI Linguistics Lead Gašper Beguš have revealed that not only do sperm whale vocalizations sound like human vowels, they also behave like them! Read: bit.ly/4dPrIfr
By: @begus.bsky.social, Maksymilian Dąbkowski, Ronald Sprouse, David Gruber, Shane Gero
