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This historical paper examines a pioneering theory of speech production and perception from the thirteenth century. Robert Grosseteste (c.1175—1253) was a celebrated medieval thinker, who developed an impressive corpus of treatises on the natural world. This paper looks at his treatise on sound and phonetics, De generatione sonorum [On the Generation of Sounds]. Through interdisciplinary analysis of the text, this paper finds a theory of vowel production and perception that is notably mathema...
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- Acoustical Society of America Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Journal website
- Volume:
- 146
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 937-947
- Publication date:
- 2019-08-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-07-03
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1520-8524
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0001-4966
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pubs:1026730
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from the Acoustical Society of America at: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5119126
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A thirteenth-century theory of speech
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