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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Power spectrum of phonemes?
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In article <43kbsv$set@male.EBay.Sun.COM> rlgreen@Eng.Sun.COM (Richard Green)
writes:

>Could someone point me at work being done on the power spectra of phonemes?
>Anyone investigating the amount of acoustic energy in various phonemes, or the
>amount of biological energy required to utter them, would be of considerable
>interest to me.  Thanks for the help.

You really information on the power spectra of *phones* = "speech sounds", as
*phonemes* are either (1) a mental construct or (2) an artefact of analytical
grouping, depending on one's theoretical background and bias(es).

I would suggest the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) as a
great place to start, along with Malmberg's big phonetics book.  (Sorry, I
don't have the title off-hand, and that one's *deep* in the storage locker.)
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
