Tuvan

Elliott A Moreton elliott at linguist.umass.edu
Thu Sep 2 14:01:33 EDT 1999


> There's an interesting article in Scientific American about the Tuvans and
> their throat singing.
> 
> phma

Also:

S. Adachi & M. Yamada (1999).  An acoustical study of sound production in 
biphonic singing, Xo"o"ij.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 
105(5):2020-2932.

Includes MRI cross-sections of a throat-singer's vocal tract when 
producing various sounds.  Pretty cool stuff.  Your local university 
library is bound to have it.

em




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