CognitionNovember 22, 2016
“Whistled Languages” Reveal How the Brain Processes Information
Before the smartphone or even Morse code, some rural peoples “spoke” long distance by whistling. Linguists are racing to study the dying languages
Stories by Julien Meyer
Julien Meyer is a linguist and bioacoustician at the French National Center for Scientific Research and at the GIPSA-lab in Grenoble, France. His research focuses on phonetics, language cognition, and language and rural communities. He runs the Icon-Eco-Speech project and is a co-founder of the World Whistles Research Association, which documents and safeguards whistled languages.