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dc.contributor.authorMaurer, Dieter
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-05T07:36:23Z
dc.date.available2024-09-05T07:36:23Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifierONIX_20240905_9783034350396_3
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92978
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFH Phonetics, phonology
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy and theory of education::JNAS Progressive education
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHD Classical mechanics::PHDS Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TT Other technologies and applied sciences::TTA Acoustic and sound engineering
dc.subject.otherAcoustics
dc.subject.otherDieter
dc.subject.otherfuture acoustic theory
dc.subject.otherIndices
dc.subject.otherMaurer
dc.subject.otherVoice Quality
dc.subject.otherVowel
dc.subject.othervowel acoustics
dc.subject.othervowel spectrum
dc.subject.otherZurich Corpus of Vowel
dc.titleAcoustics of the Vowel
dc.title.alternativeIndices
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.3726/b22003
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555
oapen.relation.isbn9783034350396
oapen.relation.isbn9783034346689
oapen.pages826
oapen.place.publicationBern


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