| Lemma | wave crest |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Harris (1951) |
| Titolo | Methods in Structural Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | stretch (inglese) utterance (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | If we trace utterances as acoustic events, we find continuous changes of sound-wave periodicities: there may be various stretches during each of which the wave crests are similar to one another, but the passage from one such stretch to a second will in general be gradual. |