Introducing Phonetic ScienceThis accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonetics, the study of speech. Assuming no prior knowledge of the topic, it introduces students to the fundamental concepts in phonetic science, and equips them with the essential skills needed for recognizing, describing and transcribing a range of speech sounds. Numerous graded exercises enable students to put these skills into practice, and the sounds introduced are clearly illustrated with examples from a variety of English accents and other languages. As well as looking at traditional articulatory description, the book introduces acoustic and other instrumental techniques for analysing speech, and covers topics such as speech and writing, the nature of transcription, hearing and speech perception, linguistic universals, and the basic concepts of phonology. Providing a solid foundation in phonetics, Introducing Phonetic Science will be invaluable to all students beginning courses in linguistics, speech sciences, language pathology and language therapy. Further exercises will be available on an accompanying website. |
Contents
4 | |
Further reading 5 Vowels | |
Voice | |
Implosives | |
Speech sounds andspeech movements | |
Suprasegmentals Introduction | |
Place of articulation | |
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accents acoustic active articulator affricate air pressure airflow airstream mechanism allophones alveolar lateral alveolar plosive alveolar ridge aspirated atthe bilabial canbe cardinal vowels chapter closure coarticulation coda consonant sounds constriction dental diacritic diagram diphthong egressive ejective English words example Exercise Figure formant fricatives front fundamental frequency glottalic hearing implosives ingressive inthe intonation laryngograph larynx lateral approximants lips look manner of articulation means minimal pair nasal cavity nonpulmonic nuclear tone nucleus obstruent occur ofthe onset passive articulator pattern pharynx phase phonetic phonological pitch place of articulation position postalveolar produced pronunciation pulmonic pulmonic egressive secondary articulation segments sequence shows signal soft palate sonorant speaker spectrograms speech sounds stressed syllable suffix symbol thetongue thevocal thevowel tone languages unrounded utterance variable stress velar velarised velum vocal fold vibration vocal folds vocal tract voiced plosives voiceless plosives vowel qualities vowel systems waveform world’s languages