DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaacoustics
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaHockett (1958)
TitoloA Course in Modern Linguistics
Sinonimi 
Rinviiacoustic phonetics (inglese)
speech signal (inglese) 
Traduzioni 
Citazioni

The branch of physics which deals with sound is ‘acoustics’. Acousticians tell us that sound consists of vibrations of the air or of some other material medium; air is the medium that concerns us.
- Hockett (1958), Pag. 113