PEP | Article - Human Speech. Some Observations, Experiments and Conclusions as to the Nature Origin, Purpose and Possible Improvement of Human Speech: By Sir Richard Paget. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method. (Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1930. Pp. 360.)

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Abstract

Sir Richard Paget, the well known physicist, in a book written with distinction, has proved again the old contention that science is one. Beginning with a discussion in the first six chapters of the mechanical principles involved in voice production, he tells us of experimental attempts to apply these principles in the construction of machines to imitate the human voice. From the consideration of these 'speaking machines', it was not difficult for the author to come to think of the human organs of speech, and to reflect on what it was that made of these

PEP | Article - Human Speech. Some Observations, Experiments and Conclusions as to the Nature Origin, Purpose and Possible Improvement of Human Speech: By Sir Richard Paget. The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method. (Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1930. Pp. 360.) - Lewin, Bertram D.