LIN228H1 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sine Wave, Vocal Tract, Spectrogram

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The way we have described speech sounds so far was in terms of. How they are produced by manipulating the vocal apparatus and. How they can be transcribed with phonetic symbols on paper. We can also describe sounds in terms of how we can hear them. How we can hear a sound depends on its acoustic structure. Acoustics: the science of the physical properties of sounds. Acoustic phonetics: the science of the physical properties of speech sounds. A line of people waiting to buy tickets to a concert is useful analogy for a sound wave. The movement of the person at the front of the line creates a gap ( rarefaction"); this gap travels through the line. Then the first person is shoved back into the second person, creating more crowdedness ( compression"); the crowdedness also travels through the line. Sound wave a traveling pressure fluctuation that propagates through a medium.

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