[EBB Sightings] New info on Anna's

[EBB Sightings] New info on Anna's

Peter Rauch
Wed Sep 12 09:55:52 PDT 2007
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    Perhaps if we knew the "meaning" of the sound(s), we might not interpret them as "just coincidental", but maybe as one of the sounds (the voiced sound?) being "intentionally" modeled after the other sound (the dive tail-pop)?
    Peter
    
    At 08:41 AM 9/10/2007, Joe Morlan wrote:
    >...
    >I remember talking to the late Louis Baptista about this.  He was able to
    >show via sonograms, that the dive-pop of Anna's Hummingbird was virtually
    >identical to a popping sound included as part of Anna's Hummingbird song.
    >It was just much louder.
    ...
    >So the similarity in the sonograms between the dive-pop and other popping
    >sounds made vocally is just coincidental.  I'm delighted that the truth of
    >this seemingly simple question has finally been resolved.
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