Acoustics of the Vowel

In a first treatise on vowel acoustics, entitled Preliminaries, intellectual, methodological and empirical reasoning was exposed that gives rise to scepticism about the prevailing acoustic theory of the vowel, the formant theory. In this second treatise, pursuing the quest for the acoustic represent...

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Hovedforfatter: Maurer, Dieter
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description In a first treatise on vowel acoustics, entitled Preliminaries, intellectual, methodological and empirical reasoning was exposed that gives rise to scepticism about the prevailing acoustic theory of the vowel, the formant theory. In this second treatise, pursuing the quest for the acoustic representation of vowel quality, the variability of the vowel spectrum and its dependence on fundamental frequency is revisited on the new empirical basis of the Zurich Corpus of Vowel and Voice Quality, with the aim of formulating knowledge-based statements concerning the spectral representation of vowel quality in general and of questioning the cause of the observable relation of the vowel spectrum to fundamental frequency. As a central result, three statements are presented that serve as primary indices for a future acoustic theory: The vowel sound is a kind of perceptual and acoustic foreground–background phenomenon, spectral representation of vowel quality is nonuniform and, most importantly, the recognition and spectral representation of the vowel does not relate to fundamental frequency but to pitch (or to a comparable perceptual reference). The treatise concludes with a reflection on the prerequisites and challenges of building a future acoustic theory of the vowel.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1436062024-09-07T04:09:11Z Acoustics of the Vowel Maurer, Dieter Acoustics Dieter future acoustic theory Indices Maurer Voice Quality Vowel vowel acoustics vowel spectrum Zurich Corpus of Vowel thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy and theory of education::JNAS Progressive education thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHD Classical mechanics::PHDS Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics) thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TT Other technologies and applied sciences::TTA Acoustic and sound engineering In a first treatise on vowel acoustics, entitled Preliminaries, intellectual, methodological and empirical reasoning was exposed that gives rise to scepticism about the prevailing acoustic theory of the vowel, the formant theory. In this second treatise, pursuing the quest for the acoustic representation of vowel quality, the variability of the vowel spectrum and its dependence on fundamental frequency is revisited on the new empirical basis of the Zurich Corpus of Vowel and Voice Quality, with the aim of formulating knowledge-based statements concerning the spectral representation of vowel quality in general and of questioning the cause of the observable relation of the vowel spectrum to fundamental frequency. As a central result, three statements are presented that serve as primary indices for a future acoustic theory: The vowel sound is a kind of perceptual and acoustic foreground–background phenomenon, spectral representation of vowel quality is nonuniform and, most importantly, the recognition and spectral representation of the vowel does not relate to fundamental frequency but to pitch (or to a comparable perceptual reference). The treatise concludes with a reflection on the prerequisites and challenges of building a future acoustic theory of the vowel. 2024-09-06T04:13:33Z 2024-09-06T04:13:33Z 2024-09-05T07:36:23Z 2024 book ONIX_20240905_9783034350396_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92978 9783034350396 9783034346689 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/143606 eng open access image/png image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92978/1/9783034350396.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92978/1/9783034350396.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b22003 10.3726/b22003 44a712f0-ee17-4c08-a667-46effed595e7 9783034350396 9783034346689 826 Bern open access
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Voice Quality
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vowel acoustics
vowel spectrum
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy and theory of education::JNAS Progressive education
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thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TT Other technologies and applied sciences::TTA Acoustic and sound engineering
Maurer, Dieter
Acoustics of the Vowel
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future acoustic theory
Indices
Maurer
Voice Quality
Vowel
vowel acoustics
vowel spectrum
Zurich Corpus of Vowel
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future acoustic theory
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vowel spectrum
Zurich Corpus of Vowel
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