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Phonetics - The Science of Speech (Paperback)
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Phonetics - The Science of Speech (Paperback)
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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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