The Unit of Sound [II]

As above units could not explain the reality of language, I defined the new unit of oral speech as ‘a simultaneously combined action of all vocal organs’, the abbreviation was SCAV. For example, (he, she, to, be, lang, teng, dan, ang, eng, an etc.) each of them was one syllable, and they were one SCAV too. In case (at, out, up, bit, fat, dot, beep, left, sprint) although they were one syllable, but they were not one SCAV, they had more than one SCAV. The funny thing was that ‘at’ was two SCAVs, while ‘ta’ was one SCAV, ‘up’ was two SCAVs, ‘pu’ was one SCAV.  Both ‘pig’ and ‘meat’ were two SCAVs; the ‘pork’ had two SCAVs too. Using (pork) instead (pig-meat) for a butcher, (who use this word two thousand times per day) will save two thousands SCAVs a day. The Chinese pig sounded like ‘zhu’ was one SCAV, meat ‘rou’ was still one SCAV, put them together ‘zhurou’ only two SCAVs, the same quantity of SCAV with ‘pork’. For this reason, Chinese language didn’t need a word ‘pork’ while their butcher didn’t need to utter extra two thousands SCAVs too. That is to say syllable≥SCAV. Some linguists had stated that ‘be’ longer than ‘bit’ in pronunciation. That is not truth. You may repeat each of them 20 times, see which one longer. Besides, the first inventor of alphabetic letters was ancient Phoenician; their letters had only consonants, no vowel. The Phoenician were good sailors, easy to understand, when they struggled with wild storm, they had to shout. So their words written by these consonants were quite loud and clear. Someone called them as syllabary. So, at the beginning both the two consonants, in [bit], [b] and [t] were loud and clear. Later people put vowel between consonants and pronounced them lighter deliberately, then we say there were some voiceless consonants.  In fact, they were not voiceless, for you could still hear them accompanied by a very short vowel [ə]. If really voiceless, you don’t need any action for it. You can’t say, during the combined action of uttering the [t] some of your vocal organ, such as vocal-cords keeps unmoved at all. Anyway, the voiceless [t] takes time, it may be shorter than normal SCAV, but you couldn’t say it take no time. So, the [be] should be shorter than [bit].  The time of SCAV is roughly equal. I say ‘roughly’ because since the information explosion, the speed of speaking has been accelerated. Now, different language may use different speed for speaking, so we can only say the time of SCAV is roughly equal. Yet the time of syllable was definitely unequal. On the other hand, we can count SCAVs to know the time, while can’t count syllables to know the time. For instance, we may say a broadcaster uttered 300 SCAVs in every minute. We can’t say a broadcaster uttered 200 syllables per minute. SCAV is a unit depends on what you feel, not independent with any letters, since, every letter-based phonetic unit is questionable. Whenever you speak any syllable slowly you will find that ‘sprint’ is ‘s-p-rin-t’ 4 SCAVs.