Acoustic Phonetics: 30 (Current Studies in Linguistics) - Hardcover

Stevens, Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026219404X ISBN 13: 9780262194044

Publisher: MIT Press, 1999

Synopsis

This book presents a theory of speech-sound generation in the human vocal system. The comprehensive acoustic theory serves as one basis for defining categories of speech sounds used to form distinctions between words in languages. The author begins with a review of the anatomy and physiology of speech production, then covers source mechanisms, the vocal tract as an acoustic filter, relevant aspects of auditory psychophysics and physiology, and phonological representations. In the remaining chapters he presents a detailed examination of vowels, consonants, and the influence of context on speech-sound production. Although he focuses mainly on the sounds of English, he touches briefly on sounds in other languages.

The book will serve as a reference for speech scientists, speech pathologists, linguists interested in phonetics and phonology, psychologists interested in speech perception and production, and engineers concerned with speech processing applications.

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Review

-- Peter Ladefoged, Professor of Phonetics Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

" Whenever anybody--linguist, speech pathologist, or communication engineer--wants to know why the acoustic structure of a particular sound is as it is, this is the book to which they will turn. There is absolutely no other book with anything like this depth of coverage." -- Peter Ladefoged, Professor of Phonetics Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

& quot; Whenever anybody--linguist, speech pathologist, or communication engineer--wants to know why the acoustic structure of a particular sound is as it is, this is the book to which they will turn. There is absolutely no other book with anything like this depth of coverage.& quot; -- Peter Ladefoged, Professor of Phonetics Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

"Whenever anybody--linguist, speech pathologist, or communication engineer--wants to know why the acoustic structure of a particular sound is as it is, this is the book to which they will turn. There is absolutely no other book with anything like this depth of coverage."--Peter Ladefoged, Professor of Phonetics Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026219404X
• ISBN 13: 9780262194044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 614