Subject: Acoustical variability in species-specific acoustical repertoire From: "Bruno L. Giordano" <bruno.giordano@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:12:10 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear list, I am interested in works that compare quantitatively the acoustical variability of the sound signals produced by different animals. In other words, do we have a quantitative measure of the extent to which the different chirps that crickets can produce constitute a corpus of acoustical signals that is less (I expect) variable than, say, the corpus of vocal signals monkeys or humans can produce? Thank you. Best, Bruno ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bruno L. Giordano, Ph.D. Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory CIRMMT http://www.cirmmt.mcgill.ca/ Schulich School of Music, McGill University 555 Sherbrooke Street West Montréal, QC H3A 1E3 Canada http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~bruno