The whole thing is a mess. I am with Mapman, I am sorry I wasted any time reading it.
All your post is an opinion like mapman WITHOUT any reading or analysis of the book...
Then...
For mapman it was " innate knowledge ", i guess and i know that for you your opinion comes from "perfect" scientific formation coming with your education and works in audio...It is easy to spot reading your posts you are not like me an amateur...
Then i will respect your opinion....not the opinion of mapman....
But i will read the book.....
A very weak conclusion, not at all supported by evidence in the paper
By the way the book is 512 pages.... The author has obtained his doctorate at the Sorbonne in acoustic for a work and experiments that takes him decades because he was innovative so much in an Unorthodox direction to explain hearing process and sound and perhaps he is wrong but i will be surprized if he was a complete idiot....
Then refrain your judgement and wait for arguments...Or perhaps like mapman you enjoy innate knowledge and not only experience in the audio working field ?
That will be interesting book because it is in the center spot of acoustic experience...
By the way it is not USUAL to produce a doctorate at the Sorbonne or in any known institution contesting in an original way centuries of reasearch in acoustic, is it not?
Then for this study , no innate knowledge or experience in audio will replace reading it....
I am guessing they were desperate for papers for the 2nd International Conference on Acoustics in Nigeria. Beautiful country, nice people, not well known for academic regour (note author is listed as independent researcher and no indication of peer review, which, is not uncommon at these conferences.)
This is only prejudices and his doctorate is in acoustic from Sorbonne... even if it is not the center of the world of acoustic research they dont give a doctorate to a complete idiot....
I will pass your prejudices and read the book...
I am interested by the links between phonology/phonetics, music, and acoustic, the book adress all that...