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THE impetus which recent events have given to the study of spoken languages has brought with it a renewed interest in the scientific analysis of the mechanism of speech. He who wishes to learn how to speak a foreign language must necessarily devote much of his time to the acquisition of the pronunciation, and he will most easily learn to become proficient at this difficult art if he can ascertain precisely what he has to do with his speech-organs in order to speak correctly. The need for accurate information about speech movements has led to the development of that branch of science known as experimental phonetics—the branch of science which has for its object the accurate analysis of speech by mechanical means.
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JONES, D. Analysis of the Mechanism of Speech . Nature 99, 285–287 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099285a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/099285a0