Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.
The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.