The Bases of SpeechHarper & Brothers, 1946 - 610 pages |
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... hear me , I should announce the play tonight . ( To those at the back ) Can you hear me ? There is to be a play tonight in this building . It will be at eight o'clock . The title is being kept a secret . I'm going to try to make the ...
... hear me , I should announce the play tonight . ( To those at the back ) Can you hear me ? There is to be a play tonight in this building . It will be at eight o'clock . The title is being kept a secret . I'm going to try to make the ...
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... hear the blow through the steel almost instantly , but it takes some time for the same blow to come to us through the air . I. PROBLEMS A hunter at the bottom of a canyon whose walls are 7200 ft . apart fires a shot . He hears the echo ...
... hear the blow through the steel almost instantly , but it takes some time for the same blow to come to us through the air . I. PROBLEMS A hunter at the bottom of a canyon whose walls are 7200 ft . apart fires a shot . He hears the echo ...
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... hear the sound . This experiencing of frequency we call pitch . That is , we hear the pitch of a sound and not the number of vibrations . But the pitch is directly affected by the frequency ; the higher the frequency , the higher the ...
... hear the sound . This experiencing of frequency we call pitch . That is , we hear the pitch of a sound and not the number of vibrations . But the pitch is directly affected by the frequency ; the higher the frequency , the higher the ...
Contents
The Social Basis of Speech I | 1 |
The Psychological Basis of Speech | 340 |
The Genetic Basis of Speech | 419 |
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