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<DIV>Hi, Karen. Good question. </DIV>
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<DIV>All I can add to this is the bark the cool and the growl.</DIV>
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<DIV>Animals use low noises--the growl-- to make themselves look
big--big to rivals and big to females who, even in frogs, go for bigness.
The bigger the woofer the lower the sound, so us animals go real low to make our
woofers sound huge. Low rumbles are our musical dominance gestures.</DIV>
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<DIV>Animals use mid-range noises--the bark--to say hello, how are you or to
introduce themselves to others they feel are equals. The mid-range is a
music we sing to each other to connect without slipping into anger or
intimacy.</DIV>
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<DIV>And animals use high-pitched, soft sounds to make themselves sound small,
unthreatening, adorably appealing, and intimate. We use high-pitched soft
sounds--coos--when we baby-talk to our young ones or to our lovers.
Tweeters make high sounds. The smaller the tweeter, the higher the
sound. Coos are musical submission and seduction gestures.</DIV>
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<DIV>Shhhhh falls into the coo category, but so do lots of other sounds. I
suspect that shhh isn't cross-cultural--that it isn't replicated in Chinese,
Japanese, or Mayan. But I'm not at all sure. Or should that be
shhhure? Howard</DIV>
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<DIV>ps take a look at this paleopsych conversation from 1998 in which Martha
Sherwood added something intriguing:</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.15pt"><FONT size=2><FONT face="Courier New">Martha
Sherwood writes:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Subj:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Re: Language as
display Date:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>98‑02‑23 13:01:14 EST From:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>msherw@oregon.uoregon.edu (Martha Sherwood) To:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>HowlBloom@aol.com<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Regarding your query to Gordon Burghart
about geckos, it might be relevant that <B>the vocalizations accompanying
vampire bat threat displays are within the human auditory range whereas their
other signals are not</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Martha
hb: very nifty, Martha.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>This
would fit in with the coo, bark and growl research, since the bats are
conceivably descending into what for them is a basso profundo growl<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>to maximize their menace.</B> Howard
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<DIV>In a message dated 12/9/2005 1:21:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
guavaberry@earthlink.net writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>hi
everyone,<BR><BR>sorry to interrupt the present conversation . . .<BR>but i've
been wondering about this . . . .<BR><BR>What is shhhhh? and does this fall
under another UR strategy<BR><BR>a western custom or is it<BR>a world wide
"instinct" we all have to use shhhhhh<BR>for shushing a baby to stop
crying<BR>or to calm a crying baby or crying child.<BR><BR>Is this another Ur
Strategy?<BR><BR>Do all human babies recognize this as the<BR>signal to be
quiet?<BR><BR>Do all cultures use this?<BR><BR>I imagine it sounding like a
snake's rattle<BR>but that doesn't mean much. I've heard it<BR>the same sound
calm's horses and sounds<BR>similar to the word for thank you in
mandarin.<BR><BR>Do we know anything about shhhhh?<BR>Appreciate any thoughts
you might have.<BR><BR>thanks,<BR>Karen Ellis<BR><BR>Archive<BR>8/16/03<BR>Re:
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PTSIZE="10">----------<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of The Lucifer Principle: A
Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution
of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century<BR>Recent Visiting
Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University; Core Faculty
Member, The Graduate
Institute<BR>www.howardbloom.net<BR>www.bigbangtango.net<BR>Founder:
International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution
Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project; founder: The Big Bang Tango
Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy of Political
Science, Advanced Technology Working Group, Human Behavior and Evolution
Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory board member:
Institute for Accelerating Change ; executive editor -- New Paradigm book
series.<BR>For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see:
www.paleopsych.org<BR>for two chapters from <BR>The Lucifer Principle: A
Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see
www.howardbloom.net/lucifer<BR>For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of
Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, see
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