The Physics of Speech Download

Author: D. B. Fry
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0521221730
Category: Medical

The Physics of Speech (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

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. Download The Physics of Speech medical books for free.
Professor Fry therefore first takes the reader through the various stages of the speech chain: from language units to nerve impulses to muscle movements to sound waves, and vice versa as the message is received and decoded. He then explains the basic physical principles involved in the generation and propagation of sound energy and in the phenomenon of resonance. These principles are then applied to the speech mechanism itself and to the particular kinds of sound which constitute speech. There is a fully illustrated account Get The Physics of Speech our bestseller medical books.

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