Relevant Acoustic Phonetics of L2 English: Focus on Intelligibility

by Ettien Koffi

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a psychoacoustic methodology for doing so. Another physicist, von Bekesy, demonstrated clinically that Fletcher's theory of Critical Bands was anchored in anatomical and auditory reality. Fletcher's and Bekesy's approach to intelligibility has revolutionized contemporary understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367617579
• ISBN13: 9780367617578
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 332 Pages