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"The vocalizations are an amateur impression of how a proto-language mightiness sound if it evolved from non-human primates" -- Karen Stollznow of Scientific American on the Morehead/Berry tapes.
We are NOT large fans of lazy skeptics. Good skeptics on the other mitt are salubrious for our research. Ones that guide maintain held our feet to the burn downward are Sharon Hill of Doubtful News and a Huffington Post contributor and Brian Dunning of Skeptoid. Skeptics, inwards my opinion, are only similar witches inwards OZ, in that place are goodness ones too bad ones.
We are non quite certain what category Scientific America's Karen Stollznow. Ms. Stollznow has Ph.D. inwards linguistics from the University of New England too seems to move critical of Scott Nelson's credentials. To select handgrip of you lot up, Scott Nelson retired from the Navy afterward a 17-year career every bit a crypto-linguist, intercepting Russian communications too decoding them. While his boy was listening to the Morehead too Berry Bigfoot sound recordings (a/k/a Sierra Sounds) he detected patterns too maybe fifty-fifty language.
After Karen introduces the full general populace on types of Sasquatch bear witness she dives correct into the possibility of Bigfoot linguistic communication too the Morehead/Berry Tapes:
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fascinating category of bear witness involves claims of a Bigfoot language. Eyewitnesses written report hearing howls, whoops, growls, screams, mumbles, whistles too other foreign vocalizations inwards the wild, too attribute these to Bigfoot. Variant forms of Bigfoot are found across cultures, too the Sasquatch, Himalayan Yeti, Australian Yowie too other alleged creatures are similarly believed to make vocalizations. Other Bigfoot communication includes the mimicry of wild fauna too wood sounds, wood-knocking, rock-knocking too rock-throwing. Bigfoot is too idea to cast patterns amongst sticks too rocks every bit a sort of writing system. In wilder claims nigh wild men, Bigfoot are believed to guide maintain the powerfulness to communicate telepathically, too purpose their large feet to ship infra-sound communication over long distances. Bigfoot are too claimed to beak too sympathize human languages, too to guide maintain their ain Bigfoot language.
There is piffling bear witness to back upward these claims, other than the anecdotal kind. The Sierra Sound recordings, too known every bit the Berry/Morehead tapes, are touted every bit the gold-standard of bear witness for a Bigfoot language. During a publish of expeditions to the Sierra Nevada Mountains betwixt the years 1972-1975, Alan Berry, Ronald Morehead too their crew captured sound recordings of alleged Bigfoot encounters. They recorded a total of xc minutes of Bigfoot linguistic communication too vocalizations using a microphone dangled from a tree branch attached to a reel-to-reel recorder. Over the years they too found 18-inch footprints of Bigfoot, too experienced many sightings…just non during the recordings!
Morehead too Berry (until his choke inwards 2012) staunchly deny that the recordings are a prank. However, for a publish of reasons, it is highly likely that the recordings are a hoax, or that the crew were hoaxed. The expeditions were undertaken specifically to hunt for Bigfoot. “Bigfoot” was heard but never seen when the recordings were made. It is obvious that other animals made only about of the sounds, such every bit bears. The wood knocks are slow to re-create, piece the “language” itself is unconvincing. The vocalizations are an amateur impression of how a proto-language mightiness sound if it evolved from non-human primates. This “Bigfoot” is likely human, too the Sierra Sounds a combination of hoax too misidentification, similar all of the other bear witness for Bigfoot.
Sounds similar she has already reached a conclusion. What is unfortunate is nosotros were hoping her critique would come upward to a greater extent than from a linguist perspective, but her conclusion, every bit you lot volition read below, is that looking into Bigfoot linguistic communication is putting the cart earlier the horse. She thinks nosotros should move looking for a torso first. Not exclusively is this a disappointment, because it would guide maintain been peachy to larn only about other linguist's perspective, but it also a flawed argument. If this was the prevailing logic nosotros would guide maintain never tried to decipher the cuneiform text left on clay tablets past times the Sumerians.
Here is her non-linguistic based argument:
Here is her non-linguistic based argument:
Self –proclaimed “Bigfoot linguistic communication expert” R. Scott Nelson has taken the Bigfoot linguistic communication claims one-step further. As though it is the Linear B of Bigfoot linguistic communication to move deciphered, Nelson has created a transcription of the Sierra Sound Recordings. He is a retired the U.S. of A. Navy Cryptologic Technician Interpreter who speaks Russian, Castilian too Persian. He too believes he tin give the axe beak “Bigfoot”.
Nelson claims he has identified non exclusively vocalizations such every bit whistles, grunts, too snarls, but too private phonemes, i.e., the sounds that combine to practise words. Nelson has created a pronunciation fundamental for these phonemes, too he uses the Latin alphabet, diacritics too diverse other symbols to stand upward for these sounds. He calls this the Sasquatch Phonetic Alphabet (SPA), or the Unclassified Hominid Phonetic Alphabet (UHPA). It is unclear why he doesn’t purpose the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language.
Bilingualism (speaking 2 or to a greater extent than languages) too working every bit a translator doesn’t qualify person to position or depict undocumented languages. This is an expanse of anthropological linguistics, although it appears every bit if many cryptozoological fans confuse “crypto-linguistics” every bit a champaign that researches the linguistic communication of cryptids. The Sierra Sounds are used non exclusively to back upward the claim of a Bigfoot language, but too to legitimize claims of Bigfoot’s existence. As Nelson argues, “The being of the Sasquatch Being is hereby assumed, since whatever creature must be earlier his language.” However, in that place are yet prior questions. Does Bigfoot exist, too if so, could Bigfoot speak?
For arguments sake, if Bigfoot did exist, the species would likely guide maintain developed its ain organization of communication, similar chimpanzees too Vervet monkeys. Similar to the claims of the (so far mythical) Orang-Pendek, Bigfoot would in all probability communicate using vocalizations. However, non-human primates don’t guide maintain the physiology to make a broad diversity of speech communication sounds, then it is unlikely that Bigfoot would guide maintain developed language, or would move able to beak existing human languages. At whatever rate, this is all starting off on the incorrect (Big)foot. There is no company physical bear witness to back upward the being of Bigfoot. Before nosotros found the being of Bigfoot language, nosotros would postulate to found the being of Bigfoot.
You tin give the axe read her total article at the Scientific American Blog
