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Regarding Arturo Camacho's question about the minimum duration required in
a sinusoid to hear pitch: by "pitch", I take to mean any sense of tonality at
all. If so, the references are:
Burck, W., Kotowski, P., and Lichte, H. (1935). Die lautstarke von knacken,
gerauschen und tonen. Elektrische Nachrichten-Technik 12, 326-333. (in German,
but understandable with some educated guesswork)
Bentzen, O. (1950). A new apparatus for producing short tones, and some
experiments performed with it. Acta Laryngologica Supplementum 95,
116-126.
Miskolczy-Fodor, F. (1953). Monaural loudness-balance-test and
determination of recruitment-degree with short sound-impulses. Acta
Oto-Laryngologica 43, 573-595.
Such issues interest me because of my experimental use of ultrashort tone
pulses (see papers in JASA) that are often too brief to have tonality.
Lance Nizami, PhD
Decatur, GA
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