The Alphabet of Nature: Or, Contributions Towards a More Accurate Analysis and Symbolization of Spoken Sounds; with Some Account of the Principal Phonetic Alphabets Hitherto ProposedS. Bagster, 1845 - 194 من الصفحات |
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accent aperture appear appulse Arabic CALIFORNIA LIBRARY character combination considered continuous consonant corresponding đan đat distinction distinguish effect English English language examples final French German glottis Greek guttural hard palate heard hence hwig impulse initial Jew's harp language larynx Latin length letter lips long vowel mark medial modified mouth musical nasal nasal vowels occur orthography ov đi palate peculiar Phonotypic Alphabet pipe preceding produced Prof pronounced pronunciation proper diphthong Rapp reader reed represented ritin ritiŋ Sanscrit sensations shew short vowel sibilants sistum ov soft palate speaker spoken consonant spoken sounds stopped vowel suprà syllable symbols teeth term tongue trill triphthongs unaccented UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA utter vibrations vocalized breath voice vowel sound whispered consonant words wurdz دو وو
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الصفحة 10 - Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
الصفحة 29 - These considerations soon induced me, upon entering on this investigation, to lay down a different plan of operations; namely, neglecting entirely the organs of speech, to determine, if possible, by experiments upon the usual acoustic instruments, what forms of cavities or other conditions, are essential to the production of these sounds, after which, by comparing these with the various positions of the human organs, it might be possible, not only to deduce the explanation and reason of their various...
الصفحة 149 - With the isolated villages of the desert it is far otherwise. They have no such meetings; they are compelled to traverse the wilds, often to a great distance from their native village. On such occasions, fathers and mothers, and all who can bear a burden, often set out for weeks at a time, and leave their children to the care of two or three infirm old people. The infant progeny, some of whom are beginning to lisp, while others can just master a whole sentence, and those still further advanced, romping...
الصفحة 155 - That sounds within a determined degree of likeness, be represented by signs within a determined degree of likeness ; whilst sounds beyond a certain degree of likeness, be represented by distinct and different signs, and that uniformly.
الصفحة 32 - ... shortening at pleasure the tube through which the air passed on quitting the reed. The results, which partly depended upon the musical note of the reed, are described by Mr. Willis in these words :— "No. 1. IEAOU* UOAEIIEAOU Let the line abed represent the length of the pipe measured from a, and take ab, be, cd, &c., respectively equal to the length of the stopped pipe in unison with the reed employed, that is, equal to half the length of the sonorous wave of the reed. " Now if the pipe be...
الصفحة 34 - For want of a different notation, I have given in the second column the English word containing the vowel in question :— " I have found this table as correct a general standard as I could well expect; for vowels, it must be considered, are not definite sounds, like the different harmonics of a note, but on the contrary glide into each other by almost imperceptible gradations, so that it becomes extremely difficult...
الصفحة 36 - The entire series of vowels can be produced from tubes of either of his forms by merely changing its dimensions. Mr. Willis finally concludes, from his experiments, that the vowel quality, added to any sound, is merely the coexistence of its peculiar note with that sound ; this accompanying note being excited by the successive reflections of the original wave of the reed at the extremities of the added tube. This view of the matter naturally associates the phenomena of vowel-sounds with those of...
الصفحة 38 - Some kinds of sounds are better suited to produce these multiple resonances than others ; and it is an universal fact that wherever these subordinate sounds can be distinguished, there also the vowel qualities are heard ; and, reciprocally, when a sound puts on successively different vowel qualities, these multiple resonances are audible. The tongue of a Jew's harp, which so readily gives rise to these subordinate sounds, is obedient not only to the vowel sounds, but to almost all the articulations...
الصفحة 37 - ... was no longer reciprocated, but its octave sound (the sound of the column when it is directly excited) was produced. By employing a graver tuning-fork and tubes of very small diameter, and successively adjusting the lengths of the columns of air so as to be one half, one third, one fourth, one fifth, &c., of the column reciprocating the fundamental sound, the octave, twelfth, double octave, seventeenth, &c., to that sound will be produced. The relative numbers of the vibrations of these sounds,...
الصفحة 28 - The mouth and its apparatus were constructed for other purposes besides the production of vowels, which appear to be merely an incidental use of it, every part of its structure being adapted to further the first great want of the creature, his nourishment. Besides, the vowels are mere affections of sound, which are not at all beyond the reach of human imitation in many ways, and not inseparably connected with the human organs, although they are most perfectly produced by them ; just so, musical notes...