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... produce and a hearer can identify . Let's suppose that we have been asked to evaluate the utility of two hypothetical communications systems . The waiters in an expensive and unusual restaurant have to somehow transmit acoustic ...
... produce and a hearer can identify . Let's suppose that we have been asked to evaluate the utility of two hypothetical communications systems . The waiters in an expensive and unusual restaurant have to somehow transmit acoustic ...
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... produce . We will instead note some of the phonetic fea- tures that nonhuman primates could produce with their speech- producing anatomy . The value of this analysis is that it may lend some new directions to the future analysis of the ...
... produce . We will instead note some of the phonetic fea- tures that nonhuman primates could produce with their speech- producing anatomy . The value of this analysis is that it may lend some new directions to the future analysis of the ...
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... produce the sound [ h ] . The sound spectrograms in Figures 8-1 and 8-3 show noiselike sounds . It is perfectly clear that nonhuman primates can produce sounds that are either voiced , e.g. , the sound in the spectrogram of Figure 8-2 ...
... produce the sound [ h ] . The sound spectrograms in Figures 8-1 and 8-3 show noiselike sounds . It is perfectly clear that nonhuman primates can produce sounds that are either voiced , e.g. , the sound in the spectrogram of Figure 8-2 ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Cognitive and Communicative Factors Underlying Language | 5 |
Darwin and Negus | 21 |
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