| Abstract | (Introduction).
Acoustic phonetics concerns itself with those topics in experimental phonetics that can reasonably be investigated by the analysis, manipulation, and synthesis of speech signals. These topics include the spectrotemporal structures of the signals and the relation of these structures both to the vocal tract configurations that produced them and to the linguistic units intended by speakers and perceived by hearers. In this essay, some account is given of the history of acoustic phonetic research in the U.S. Speech perception research, however, is considered in a separate paper in this volume and will be referred to here only incidentally. |
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