Phonetics : The Science of Speech

ISBN-13: 9780340700105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str.

MartinJ Ball

Opis

This comprehensive introductory textbook is designed primarily for students of linguistics who are encountering phonetics for the first time. The book guides the reader through the main sub-areas of phonetic science which constitute the "speech chain," charting the progress of speech from speaker to listener.

Spis treści

The anatomy and physiology of speech Initiation of speech.  Speech articulation.  Segments of speech - obstruent consonants.  Segments of speech - sonorant consonants and vowels.  Suprasegments of speech.  Multiple articulations, coarticulation, and the parameters of speech.  Principles and methods of phonetic transcription.  Acoustic characteristics of speech.  The perception of speech.  Perceptual phonetics.  Instrumental phonetics.

O autorze

Ball, Martin J; Joan Rahilly,