Phonetics
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Phonetics

The Science of Speech

Martin J Ball,Joan Rahilly

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Phonetics

The Science of Speech

Martin J Ball,Joan Rahilly

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In their comprehensive new introduction to phonetics, Ball and Rahilly offer a detailed explanation of the process of speech production, from the anatomical initiation of sounds and their modification in the larynx, through to the final articulation of vowels and consonants in the oral and nasal tracts. This textbook is one of the few to give a balanced account of segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech, showing clearly that the communication chain is incomplete without accurate production of both individual speech sounds (segmental features) and aspects such as stress and intonation (suprasegmental features). Throughout the book the authors provide advice on transcription, primarily using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Students are expertly guided from basic attempts to record speech sounds on paper, to more refined accounts of phonetic detail in speech. The authors go on to explain acoustic phonetics in a manner accessible both to new students in phonetics, and to those who wish to advance their knowledge of key pursuits in the area, including the sound spectrograph. They describe how speech waves can be measured, as well as considering how they are heard and decoded by listeners, discussing both physiological and neurological aspects of hearing and examining the methods of psychoacoustic experimentation. A range of instrumentation for studying speech production is also presented. The next link is acoustic phonetics, the study of speech transmission. Here the authors introduce the basic concepts of sound acoustics and the instrumentation used to analyse the characteristics of speech waves. Finally, the chain is completed by examining auditory phonetics, and providing a fascinating psychoacoustic experimentation, used to determine what parts of the speech signal are most crucial for listener understanding. The book concludes with a comprehensive survey and description of modern phonetic instrumentation, from the sound spectrograph to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9781134635955
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 The anatomy and physiology of speech
  9. 2 Initiation of speech
  10. 3 Speech articulation
  11. 4 Segments of speech: obstruent consonants
  12. 5 Segments of speech: sonorant cosonants and vowels
  13. 6 Suprasegments of speech
  14. 7 Multiple articulations, co-articulation and the parameters of speech
  15. 8 Principles and methods of phonetic transcription
  16. 9 Acoustic characteristics of speech
  17. 10 The perception of speech
  18. 11 Perceptual phonetics
  19. 12 Instrumental phonetics
  20. Appendix 1: Phonetics charts
  21. Appendix 2: Languages cited in the text
  22. References
  23. Index
Citation styles for Phonetics

APA 6 Citation

Ball, M., & Rahilly, J. (2014). Phonetics (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1616954/phonetics-the-science-of-speech-pdf (Original work published 2014)

Chicago Citation

Ball, Martin, and Joan Rahilly. (2014) 2014. Phonetics. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1616954/phonetics-the-science-of-speech-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Ball, M. and Rahilly, J. (2014) Phonetics. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1616954/phonetics-the-science-of-speech-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Ball, Martin, and Joan Rahilly. Phonetics. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2014. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.