The Physics of Speech

by Dennis B. Fry and Dennis Butler Fry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521293790
• ISBN13: 9780521293792
• Release Date: March 1979
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"