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Sarah Tracy Barrows (October 21, 1870, Hudson, Ohio - 1952, Contra Costa, California [1]) was an American phonetician.She was best known for her pioneering work on the phonetics of American English pronunciation and her many applied phonetics publications aimed at public school teachers (1926), speech therapists (1927), actors (1935, 1938) and immigrants learning English (Barrows 1918, 1922).
In a simple form of communication between two people, such as a short dialog, the speaker's utterance and transmission of speech sounds (or speech signal) to the hearer encompass seven phases of speech, namely: [1]
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. [1] Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians.
Elizabeth Cook Zsiga (/ ˈ z iː ɡ ə /) [1] (b. 1964) is an American linguist whose work focuses on phonology and phonetics. She is a Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University . Education and career
Visible Speech is a system of phonetic symbols developed by British linguist Alexander Melville Bell in 1867 to represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds. Bell was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject.
Acoustic phonetics is a subfield of phonetics, which deals with acoustic aspects of speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics investigates time domain features such as the mean squared amplitude of a waveform, its duration, its fundamental frequency, or frequency domain features such as the frequency spectrum, or even combined spectrotemporal features and the relationship of these properties to other ...
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phonemes or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a particular language variety.
A Practical Introduction to Phonetics, 2nd. ed., Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780199246359; Fundamental Problems in Phonetics; Word-stress and sentence-stress: a practical and theoretical guide for teachers of Basic English; A Linguistic Theory of Translation; Ergativity in Caucasian Languages