PPT Slide
- Dog barking, Tires screeching, Gun shot
- Benefits
- A language everybody speaks
- succinct
- sources have their own representational hierarchies
- a chiuaua is a dog is an animal
- Drawbacks
- Some sounds have no possible physical cause
- A physical cause is not always identifiable (is the screech a train, car, or a baby?)
- A given sound can have many unrelated possible sources.
- A given source can make many different kinds of sounds