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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 13:25:52
From: Simon Reber [S.Reber at peterlang.com]
Subject: Acoustics of the Vowel: Maurer (ed.)

 


Title: Acoustics of the Vowel 
Subtitle: Preliminaries 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
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Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?432031 


Editor: Dieter Maurer

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Abstract:

It seems as if the fundamentals of how we produce vowels and how they are
acoustically represented have been clarified: we phonate and articulate. Using
our vocal chords, we produce a vocal sound or noise which is then shaped into
a specific vowel sound by the resonances of the pharyngeal, oral, and nasal
cavities, that is, the vocal tract. Accordingly, the acoustic description of
vowels relates to vowelspecific patterns of relative energy maxima in the
sound spectra, known as patterns of formants.

The intellectual and empirical reasoning presented in this treatise, however,
gives rise to scepticism with respect to this understanding of the sound of
the vowel. The reflections and materials presented provide reason to argue
that, up to now, a comprehensible theory of the acoustics of the voice and of
voiced speech sounds is lacking, and consequently, no satisfying understanding
of vowels as an achievement and particular formal accomplishment of the voice
exists. Thus, the question of the acoustics of the vowel – and with it the
question of the acoustics of the voice itself – proves to be an unresolved
fundamental problem.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics


Written In: English  (eng)

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