Part III

Having a Blast: Sound, Waveforms, and Speech Movement

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In this part . . .

Comprehend what causes sound and know why this information is essential for understanding how people talk and listen.

Grasp how to describe sound physically, in terms of frequency, amplitude, and duration.

Be able to relate physical aspects of sound to people’s subjective listening patterns.

Know how to decode the information in sound spectrograms.

Gather the basics of current models of human speech perception.