Ahh, nothing like a professional to enlighten a dilettante! Thank you,
Peter.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_phonetics> looks like a worthy
article; it has a number of references, although not Roederer.

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:03:06 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> Nicholas,
>
> What you describe is called "acoustic phonetics." It goes back at least
> to Helmholtz, and the Bells (Alexander Melville, Alexander Graham) were
> pioneers. The "sound spectrograph" was developed during (or before?)
> WWII. and as soon as it was declassified, Martin Joos published a
> detailed exposition of its discoveries (*Visible Speech*, 1947). Major
> (near-)contemporary names in acoustic phonetics include Ilse Lehiste,
> Peter Ladefoged, J. C. Catford, and Ian Maddieson.
>
> Crystal's *Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language* includes a full-page

Aha! Asterisk delineators for book titles; I think I'll adopt those.

> display of the largest consonant inventory known (a click language)
> alongside the smallest (Rotomas)..
> --
> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

Best regards,

--
Nicholas B o d l e y
Waltham, Mass.
Why are subscripts becoming disused in chemical formulae?
Is it that chemistry is not generally taught, or, laziness?
The ASCII form I like is exemplified by "H_2O".