Sentence examples for vocal traits from inspiring English sources
Karpf, a British journalist, notes that, while speakers of Tzeltal, in Mexico, have more than four hundred words describing such vocal traits as "talking very slowly, as if sad," English has a comparatively small number of such terms.
The intricate acoustic patterns which comprise speech affect how we're seen in terms of our personality, our emotional state and even our professional competence, but it's only been relatively recently that scientists have tried to delve into these complex vocal traits in more detail.
However, like physical attributes, vocal traits seem to be subtle too.
Jackson incorporates many of the vocal traits associated with his work, such as hiccups and gasps.
The systematics and evolutionary relationship of the Hylobates members have been investigated using morphological characters, vocal traits of the songs, analysis of chromosomal morphology and DNA sequence data (e.g. [ 6, 20, 23- 26]).
In the second analysis for vocal variation, we considered four populations in which vocal characters are fixed (Ciel, Ord, Tux and Nov); vocal traits were coded as presence/absence of introductory syllable type.
We predicted that if male quality changes between years, honest vocal quality traits should change accordingly.
For example, thresholds for voice pitch discrimination and attribution of vocal masculinity (a trait associated with pitch) are not significantly different (Re, unpublished data).
It is thus possible that novel genes might also be associated with the evolution of characteristic songbird traits like vocal learning.
While at first glance language and bird evolution may appear unrelated, three groups of birds parrots, songbirds, and hummingbirds are among the few animals capable of imitating sounds they hear, a trait called vocal learning that provides the foundation for language.
Furthermore, songbirds and humans share vocal learning, a rare trait that requires specialized vocal control brain structures that have been identified in both species.
