title: [Comparative analysis of spectral-prosodic characteristics of the human prototype signals and phonation of the common maynah (Acridotheres tristis)].
abstract: A comparative study was carried out of the spectral-prosodic characteristics of phoneme "a" (vowel "ya" from Russian word "Byaka") pronounced by the common maynah and humans (a total of about 50 signals). A phenomenon of mutual express-imitation has been established in the course of dialogue contact between the maynah and female speaker. Common similarity and difference features of the acoustic characteristics of the human and bird's signals have been revealed, as well individual similarity features of the signals upon the dialogue contact.
authors.affiliation: Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: O L
authors.initials: OL
authors.lastname: Silaeva
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D014828:Vocalization, Animal