Fry, Dennis Butler.

The physics of speech / D. B. Fry. - Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979. - 148 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge textbooks in linguistics .

Includes index.

List of phonetic symbols; 1. The speech chain; 2. The generation of sound; 3. The propagation of sound waves; 4. Absorption and reflection of sound energy; 5. Free and forced vibrations: resonance; 6. The speech mechanism as sound generator; 7. The vocal tract; 8. Periodic and aperiodic sounds; 9. Acoustic analysis: the sound spectrograph; 10. Acoustic features of English sounds; 11. Acoustic cues for the recognition of speech sounds; Index.

0521221730. 0521293790

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Speech.
Sound-waves.

QP306 / .F8 1979

612.78 FRY