The physics of speech /
The mechanism of speech is a very complex one and in order to undertake any analysis of language it is important to understand the processes that go to make up the message that a speaker transmits and a listener receives. Professor Fry therefore first takes the reader through the various stages of t...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1979.
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| Series: | Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- List of phonetic symbols
- The speech chain
- The generation of sound
- The propagation of sound waves
- Absorption and reflection of sound energy
- Free and forced vibrations: resonance
- The speech mechanism as sound generator
- The vocal tract
- Periodic and aperiodic sounds
- Acoustic analysis: the sound spectrograph
- Acoustic features of English sounds
- Acoustic cues for the recognition of speech sounds
- Index.
