Perceiving Phonetic Segments*

Why do we study Is the a acoustic structure in which we are interested to use it for communication? Certainly, belongs to a natural class of acoustic patterns about which we know very little, nam'ely, structured over time by mechanical events--such as a footstep on hand paper, a glass bottle bouncing or breaking communication) 0 If we knew more about the temporally and ly distributed acoustic properties of such dynamic events, and how we ze them, would we then understand how we perceive In other words, is merely a distinctive set of sounds, , "as no other sounds are, movements of human articulators modulating characteristic vocal source?