SOUNDS IN LANGUAGE

@article{Davis1938SOUNDSIL,
  title={SOUNDS IN LANGUAGE},
  author={Thomas Keefe Davis},
  journal={The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease},
  year={1938},
  volume={88},
  pages={491–499}
}
  • T. K. Davis
  • Published 1 October 1938
  • Physics
  • The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
When we listen to spoken language, we ultimately ‘know’ what we hear to be a series of discrete individual sound segments. Yet physically (= acoustically) sounds are not discrete but continuous propagating waves, which travel through the air somewhat like the ripples you see on a lake. When these sound waves reach our ear, they cause our eardrums to vibrate, ultimately leading to auditory ‘perception’ of some sort. 
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