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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Dedication Contents Author's acknowledgements Publisher's acknowledgements 1 Introduction: impressionistic phonetics andexperimental phonetics 1.1 What is experimental phonetics? 1.2 Impressionistic phonetics 1.2.1 Assumptions 1.2.2 Methodology 1.3 The scope of experimental phonetics 1.4 The representation of speech sounds 1.4.1 Segments and phonemes 1.4.2 Mental representations 1.5 Experimental phonetics and the structure of sound systems 1.6 The structure and scope of this book 1.7 Further reading Note 2 The nature of sound 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Sound waves 2.2.1 Describing a simple sound wave 2.2.2 From movements to pressures 2.2.3 Sound waves in space 2.2.4 Some definitions 2.3 Types of sound waves 2.4 The structure of sound waves 2.4.1 Specifying sound waves 2.4.2 The spectrum 2.4.3 Generating some vowel-like waveforms 2.4.4 Spectra of aperiodic sounds 2.5 Scaling and the spectrum 2.5.1 Amplitude, power and intensity 2.5.2 The decibel scale 2.5.3 The octave scale 2.6 Summary 2.7 Further reading Notes 3 Analysing sound: the spectrograph 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Spectrography 3.2.1 Basic principles 3.2.2 An example spectrogram 3.2.3 Narrow

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Author
Katrina Hayward
Publisher
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9781315842059
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Linguistics, Medical, Nursing
Updated
2026-03-24

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