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... present pronunciation is characteristically clear and inconspicuous . RECEIVING THE CODE The speaker employs the codes of sounds and words and forms the acoustic symbols . The listener receives the messages symbol by symbol . An ...
... present pronunciation is characteristically clear and inconspicuous . RECEIVING THE CODE The speaker employs the codes of sounds and words and forms the acoustic symbols . The listener receives the messages symbol by symbol . An ...
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... present discussion is transitional . In Chap . 4 we treated sounds as a set of symbols that comprise words , and both sounds and words as available code symbols . In Chaps . 6 and 7 we shall discuss the meaning that the words acquire ...
... present discussion is transitional . In Chap . 4 we treated sounds as a set of symbols that comprise words , and both sounds and words as available code symbols . In Chaps . 6 and 7 we shall discuss the meaning that the words acquire ...
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... present talk . Retrospective alteration occurs when indi- viduals try to change or alter past occurrences by speech . Have you noticed how the coaches and players of a team that has lost a contest will replay it with words ? In the ...
... present talk . Retrospective alteration occurs when indi- viduals try to change or alter past occurrences by speech . Have you noticed how the coaches and players of a team that has lost a contest will replay it with words ? In the ...
Contents
Preface Chapter 1 An Overview I | 1 |
The Mechanisms of Speech | 18 |
The Sound of Speech | 35 |
Copyright | |
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Speech: Code, Meaning, and Communication John Wilson Black,Wilbur Erwin Moore No preview available - 1973 |
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A. E. Housman action answer audience become behavior cent cerebral cortex Chap communication Company consonants cortex course Craig Baird culture debate decibels discussion effective evaluation example experience express fact frequency function gestures H. L. Mencken hand hear human ideas individual instance interest knowledge language learned List listeners logical loudness main motion meaning mental microphone mind motives movement muscles nerve observed oral organization patterns pauses person phonetics phrases pitch poem practice privileged motions probably pronunciation Psychology public address question radio reader recording relations response selected sentence Slurvian social sound of speech sound pressure level sound waves speaker speaking speech sounds statement structure style syllable symbols T. S. Eliot talk telephone thinking thought tion topic University utterance vocabulary vocal vocal folds voice vowel Wendell Johnson words York