| Lemma | gross acoustic feature |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Bloomfield (1935) |
| Titolo | Language |
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| Citazioni | Part of the gross acoustic features are indifferent (non distinctive), and only a part are connected with meanings essential to communication (distinctive) [...] The features of sound in any utterance, as they might be recorded in the laboratory, are the 'gross acoustic features' of this utterance. [...] gross acoustic features, which, as we have seen form a continuous whole and can be subdivided into any desired number of parts. |