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Alexander Graham Bell
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Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
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Alexander Graham Bell
,
The Mechanisms of Speech
, 1916
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