On levels of description in speech research.
Many researchers are linguistic category names (consonants, vowels, syllables) to refer to observations and measurements made in records of the acoustic speech signal. The present paper serves as a remainder that linguistic categories are abstract and have no physical properties, and that, therefore, their physical correlates in the speech wave are appropriately described in acoustic terms only.
D000162:Acoustics; D001307:Auditory Perception; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards*; D013060:Speech; D009626:Terminology as Topic