Robert F. Port
All is prosody: phones and phonemes are the ghosts of letters
standard way represent language within linguistics using letterlike units ie consonant vowel phones phonemes representation despite powerful intuitive appeal supported experimental data 4 straightforward predictions implied model shown fail one main problems inability segments permit representing actual values time one realtime property speech periodically produced speech found eg song chant several audio clips spontaneously produced rhythmic speech analyzed speaker performance related laboratory task speech cycling reviewed phraserepetition task speakers quickly adopt nested periodic timing patterns surprisingly rigid time letterbased descriptions speech make rhythm invisible