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One unit has been admitted on every hand: the breath group. Sweet, Rousselot, E. W. Scripture, all assume that there is no justification for the subdivision of this phrase; they count words, syllables, “sounds” as fictitious divisions having no real existence.
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SWEET, History of English Sounds, Clarendon, Oxford, ‘88 p.14.
ROUSSELOT, Principes de Phonétique Expérimentale, Welter, Paris, ‘oi—’o8 p. 969, 972.
SCRIPTURE, E. W., Experimental Phonetics, Scribners, N.Y. ‘o2 p. 450. Die Verskunst und die experimentelle Phonetik, Wiener Med. Wschr. 72, ’22, no. 33, p. 1378. Impossible to divide the verse „Somebody said it couldn’t be done“ into words, or syllables, or separate sounds.
A. W. DE GROOT, La Syllabe: Essai de Synthèse, Bul. de la Soc. Linguistique de Paris, 27, ‘26, p. I-42, has a very interesting discussion of the nature of the syllable and develops a functional concept of the syllable as a rhythmic element.
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Principes I p. 334–5 Fig. 116, 117. Précis de Prononciation Française, WELTER, Paris, ‘13, 2d éd. p. 25 Fig. 12.
Vowels: Roy. Soc. Proc. 102, p. 752–765, Mar. 1, ‘23. Consonants: Roy. Soc. Proc. 106, p. 150–174, Aug. 1, ‘24. Quotation, p. 173. Popular statement of the position, “Invention of Human Speech,” Sci. Am. 83, ‘27, p. 204. Also „Human Speech and its Artificial Production,“ Discovery, 8, ‘27, p. 7–9.
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Stetson, R.H. (1928). Current Formulations of the Actual Elements of Speech. In: Motor Phonetics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3356-0_2
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