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Phonetics: A Critical Analysis of Phonetic Theory and a Technic for the Practical Description of Sounds.
Pike, Kenneth L. – 1972
This book seeks to point out the difficulties which remain in phonetic theory because of a legacy from prephonemic days when phonetics and phonemics were one. Sounds were shown to have been chosen for description because of their use in speech rather than because of their articulatory or acoustic nature; many sounds were ignored because they were…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Alphabets, American Indian Languages, Articulation (Speech)