Applications are invited for appointment as Post-doctoral Fellow in Experimental Phonetics in the School of English (Ref.: 532565), to commence as soon as possible for a period of two years. This ...

WITH the advent of the talking film, the recording of speech has recently received considerable attention, but, as at the time of the invention of the phonograph, more interest is shown in commercial ...

IT is now ninety years since Scott with his phonautograph-the precursor of the gramophone-first made traces of the wave forms of speech sounds. The mechanical wave-tracers progressed and reached their ...

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