TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maurer, Dieter
AB  - 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 vowel-specific 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.
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0343-2391-8
ID  - OAPEN ID: 588650
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 945783360
KW  - acoustics
KW  - phonetics
KW  - phonology
KW  - vowel
KW  - language
KW  - acoustics
KW  - phonetics
KW  - phonology
KW  - vowel
KW  - language
KW  - Formant
KW  - Fundamental frequency
KW  - Harmonic
KW  - Hertz
KW  - Scottish Premier League
KW  - Spectral envelope
KW  - Vocal tract
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e3abde2a-8fef-4dcc-b7dd-4572c745c575/588650.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32926
PB  - Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
PP  - Bern, Berlin Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9783034323918
TI  - Acoustics of the Vowel - Preliminariesnull
ER  - 
