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<p>Beep Boop I&#039;m a bot!</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Hisses have some paralinguistic functions similar to human sibilants. They can be used to silence someone. Some cultures use hisses as an attention-getter, but the Commonthroat-speaking world uses a yip for that instead. A soft trilled hiss is used to catch the attention of small animals like forest flyers, similar to using /pspspspsps/ to catch the attention of cats. It&#039;s thought to mimic the dry stridulating sounds made by the insects they eat.<br /> <br /> In several places I&#039;ve described yinrih hesses as sounding like an angry goose. Humans find the sound somewhat comical paired with the yinrih&#039;s typical anemic vocalizations. A hissing yinrih sounds like he&#039;s trying and failing to be threatening<br /> <br /> Since hisses do not carry tone, the YPA shall use the number 0 in the tone position when describing hisses. It remains to be seen whether hiss semivowels can occur alongside hiss vowels, though they likely can. I&#039;m fairly sure they can occur in both onset and coda positions.<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Biology]] [[Category:Megathread Uploads]]</div>

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