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SOME specimens of film curves of German vowels obtained by the Vienna method of recording (wire in magnetic field slantways across a slit1) are reproduced in Fig. 1. Inspection of the curves reveals the following facts: (1) A vowel is made up of a series of adjacent vibration profiles; (2) the profiles differ progressively in length, amplitude, and form; (3) each profile begins strong and becomes steadily weaker; (4) within each profile various characteristics, for example, maxima, are repeated; (5) different vowels show systematic differences of profile. Measurements reveal the following additional facts; (6) the frequencies of the inner repetitions change within each profile; (7) the rate of weakening changes within each profile.
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See Z. Experimental-Phonetik, vol. 1, p. 96.
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SCRIPTURE, E. Observations on Filmed and Filtered Vowels. Nature 130, 275–276 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130275b0
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