Syntactics?
	Icon (I) Back to Menu	A Mynah Bird imitates a part of an Indonesian song «Indonesia, tanah airku ...» Play the imitation of the bird and return with the Back Button of the browser (top left) to the text page: click here for playback. To do and then to observe: Extract the [e] of «Indonesia» as a sound fragment. Imitate this vowel sound of the bird (here done by a man). Analyse spectra and spectral envelopes. You may see:                       Bird [e]                                    Man [e]                    For the lower frequencies, the so-called «first formant» (lower envelope peak) is «missing». The rest of the spectrum and the envlope is quite similar. To do and to look at: Extract the [a] «Indonesia» as a sound fragment. Imitate again the vowel sound of the bird (here done by a man). Apply a spectral analyses, including the envelope:                       Bird [e]                                    Man [e]                    The spectrum and the envlope is quite similar.