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This sentence contains no stops. The sound stream is not interrupted ; 

 it is just a continuous variation from one vowel to another. In Fig. 4 

 the main melodic stream is given. 



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Fig. 3 — Oscillogram: "How are you?" 



In Fig. 5 an oscillograph of the sentence "Joe took father's shoe 

 bench out" is shown when the vowels of this sentence are intoned on 

 the simple melody do-re-me-fa-me-re-do, and in Fig. 6 the melodic 



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Fig. 4 — Melodic curve: "How are you?" 



streams are given. In this case only the characteristic resonant 

 pitch positions for the two secondary melodic streams are given. The 

 chief difference between this figure and that for the spoken sentence is 



