Examples of whistle

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You see, what she produces is not just whistling.
They might be eating, talking, whistling, humming, smoking during the most dramatic scenes.
A few brief attempts to characterise these sounds in words: incorrect births and deaths of partials can result in short whistles.
The oddity which the fellow-curates remarked was that as he walked in the procession from the vestry up the aisle he could be heard whistling.
The discussion is organised as follows. 2 examines formant-based whistled languages.
The reader may also have noticed finer points of agreement between the signal envelopes of the spoken and whistled consonants.
Another local artist installed plastic bottles with cut fipples, whistling bottle sticks, whining tones.
The rhythmic patterns and whistles of the train and human voice testimonies constitute the compositional material.
During their performances, audience members stood, clapped, whistled, and moved in place.
Evidence is presented of young dolphins' overproduction of variants of adults' whistles, as in the avian overproduction of subsongs.
The acquisition and use of conspecific signature whistles within adult male coalitions suggest that shared vocalizations act as an affiliative indicator of social bonding.
Instantly, from five or six corners of the hall emanated five or six whistles.
The best match between whistled and spoken vowels is found with the vowel /a/.
He whistled now and tinkled an imaginary drum, before offering me three teeth of golden maize.
One dolphin isolated at age 1-2 years (and for 7 years thereafter) was exposed to a large number of recorded and electronic whistles.
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