the first phonetic study of cat sounds and classified the 16 different vocal patterns into three main classes:

# sounds produced with the mouth closed (murmurs - purring, trilling)
# sounds produced when the mouth is first opened and then gradually closed (meowing, howling, yowling)
# sounds produced with the mouth held tensely open in the same position (growls, snarls, hisses, spits, chattering, and chirping).

Moelk used a phonetic alphabet to transcribe

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