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... acoustic phonetics to the physics of sound waves , their transmis- sion and reception . Phonetics covers much of the ground loosely referred to in language study as pronunciation . But , from a rather different point of view , speech sounds ...
... acoustic phonetics to the physics of sound waves , their transmis- sion and reception . Phonetics covers much of the ground loosely referred to in language study as pronunciation . But , from a rather different point of view , speech sounds ...
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... sounds that the human ear cannot detect . Bats emit and detect sound waves at ultra- high frequencies , in the vicinity of 100,000 cycles per sec- ond , about five times the highest frequency to which the human ear is sensitive . Bats ...
... sounds that the human ear cannot detect . Bats emit and detect sound waves at ultra- high frequencies , in the vicinity of 100,000 cycles per sec- ond , about five times the highest frequency to which the human ear is sensitive . Bats ...
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... waves , which have already been considered . Others correspond to groups of plane waves that differ slightly either ... sound waves and subsequently applied to light waves by Fi- zeau . It is called the Doppler - Fizeau effect . The Dop ...
... waves , which have already been considered . Others correspond to groups of plane waves that differ slightly either ... sound waves and subsequently applied to light waves by Fi- zeau . It is called the Doppler - Fizeau effect . The Dop ...
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