"long" and "short" vowels (UNCLASSIFIED)

Tue Jun 23 21:42:49 UTC 2009

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Tom Zurinskas
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:43 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: "long" and "short" vowels
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> Why do folks say "human" speech?  Can we just say "speech" and assume
> it's human?
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This article:
http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/projects/printer-acoustic/#Scientific_Pub
lication
 is about recording the sounds emitted by dot-matrix printers, and
decoding what was printed after doing scientific/mathematic analysis of
those sounds.

If you ask a dozen average intelligent laypeople to define "speech", I
bet the above process would end up falling within most of their
definitions.

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