Vocalization with semi-occluded airways is favorable for optimizing sound production.

Vocalization in mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians occurs with airways that have wide openings to free-space for efficient sound radiation, but sound is also produced with occluded or semi-occluded airways that have small openings to free-space. It is hypothesized that pressures produced insid...

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Main Authors: Ingo R Titze, Anil Palaparthi, Karin Cox, Amanda Stark, Lynn Maxfield, Brian Manternach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008744