I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
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Nationality: American Type: Politician Born: April 6, 1956 |
“The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.”
“We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.”