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 23 May 2012: Praat 5.3.16
17 May 2012: continued adding Praat tutorial Speech waveforms
Posted 10 March 2012:
Understanding waveforms
Four basic waveforms:
sine, triangle, sawtooth and pulse
played in that order
Listen and compare:
The sinewave has no overtones
The others have progressively stronger overtones:


A short sequence of stills from an X-ray movie of speech, annotated to show which articulators were active for which phoneme at any moment.
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 What coarticulation is about, with examples. Read more
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Formants and resonance explained
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