Phonetics For DummiesThe clear and easy way to get a handle on the science of speech The science of how people produce and perceive speech, phonetics has an array of real-world applications, from helping engineers create an authentic sounding Irish or Canadian accent for a GPS voice, to assisting forensics investigators identifying the person whose voice was caught on tape, to helping a film actor make the transition to the stage. Phonetics is a required course among students of speech pathology and linguistics, and it's a popular elective among students of telecommunications and forensics. The first popular guide to this fascinating discipline, Phonetics For Dummies is an excellent overview of the field for students enrolled in introductory phonetics courses and an ideal introduction for anyone with an interest in the field. Bonus instructional videos, video quizzes, and other content available online for download on the dummies.com product page for this book. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting Started with Phonetics Chapter 1 Understanding the ABCs of Phonetics | 9 |
The Lowdown on the Science of Speech Sounds | 15 |
Meeting the IPA Your New Secret Code | 37 |
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Touching on tone languages | 43 |
Why the IPA Trumps Spelling | 50 |
Producing Speech The HowTo | 51 |
Reading a Sound Spectrogram | 191 |
Formant frequency transitions | 205 |
15 | 209 |
Speech in a noisy environment | 214 |
Confirming That You Just Said What I Thought You Said | 219 |
Understanding sound discrimination Examining characteristics of categorical perception | 230 |
Exploring Different Speech Sources | 237 |
Putting Your Larynx in a State | 245 |
7 | 65 |
Classifying Speech Sounds | 73 |
Tackling Phonemes | 84 |
Speculating about English Speech Sounds | 91 |
Speculating about English Speech Sounds | 94 |
Exploring Coarticulation | 104 |
Sounding Out English Vowels | 107 |
Getting Narrow with Phonology | 123 |
Putting the Rules Together | 129 |
Getting Narrow with Phonology Chapter 9 Perusing the Phonological Rules of English | 131 |
Glottal Stopping before Nasals | 138 |
Grasping the Melody of Language | 145 |
Marking Melody in Your Transcription | 157 |
Continuation Rises and Tag Questions | 164 |
Having a Blast Sound Waveforms | 171 |
Having a Blast Sound Waveforms | 172 |
Phase | 178 |
Formalizing formants | 184 |
Visiting Other Places Other Manners | 253 |
Working with Your Tongue | 266 |
Coming from the Mouths of Babes | 277 |
A child with a cochlear implant CI | 288 |
Accentuating Accents | 291 |
Dude wheres my ride? The South Fixin to take yalls car | 295 |
Working with Broken Speech | 315 |
24 | 327 |
Ten Common Mistakes That Beginning Phoneticians | 335 |
Debunking Ten Myths about Various English Accents | 341 |
Yankees Are FastTalkin and Southerners Are Slow Paced | 342 |
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