[2] Phonetic Space is a concept pioneered by Martin Joos in 1948[3] and developed by Gordon E. Peterson in 1951[4] and Noam Chomsky in 1968.
[5] The most cited rebuttal of Chomsky's proposal of a universal and discrete phonetic space is an article by Port and Leary titled, "Against Formal Phonology".
[2] A definition of phonetic space is not agreed upon, the concept varying in use and meaning depending on the author in question.
[5] Based on these ideas, the Vowel Quadrilateral is used to show what the realization of these basic would look like, and helps to visually conceptualize the separation of competing phonetic space that occurs within the human mind.
While Grassmann's development of linear algebra set us on the conceptual path to placing values in space,[8][circular reference] it was C. G. Kratzenstein who first published detailed methods to synthesize speech in the 1700s.
"Although when his principal phonetic work, was published in 1781 and 1782 there was no clear understanding of acoustic resonance, his accomplishment – via trial and error – was remarkable and contributed to accumulating "existence proofs" that speech could be understood in physical and physiological terms.
"[9] While first mentioned in the 1700s, the idea was largely ignored until the 1940s when the term was more officially coined by Martin Joos, an American linguist and professor of German.
Gordon E. Peterson was an American linguist whose field of study varied from acoustic analysis to phonemic theory and automatic speech recognition.