The Physics of Speech Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics RRP
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Ships from UK supplier |Format:||Paperback / softback, 156
pages| |Other Information: ||71figs.| |Published In: ||United
Kingdom, 08 March 1979| 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 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 of t