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Topic-116: Acoustic Analysis



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Topic-116: Acoustic Analysis
According to the experts of speech sounds (phoneticians, acoustic analysis can provide a clear, objective datum for the investigation of speech – the physical facts of utterance. In other words, acoustic evidence is often referred to when one wants to support an analysis being made in articulatory or auditory phonetics. However, it is important to note down that one should not be too reliant on acoustic analyses which are subject to many mechanical limitations (e.g. the need to calibrate measuring devices Copyright Virtual University of Pakistan

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accurately, and which are often themselves open to multiple interpretations. Acoustic analysis not only gives us the features of a sound but also tells us about the duration or length of a speech sound. For such an analysis, we need to carefully know about material and procedure of recording. Thus, acoustic analysis describes the durational characteristics, articulatory properties and phonetic differences through physiological measurement.

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