Phonetic Data Analysis An Introduction to Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques

by Ladefoged, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780631232698
• ISBN10: 0631232699
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Phonetic Data Analysis examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental phonetics, most of them requiring little more than a tape recorder, a video camera, and a computer. Examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental phonetics. Written by Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians. Enables readers to work with a speaker in class or go out into the field and make their own discoveries about how the sounds of a language are made. Provides full descriptions of techniques that are readily available and do not require the resources of a major phonetics laboratory. Includes enlightening comments throughout about Ladefoged's own fieldwork experiences.

Author Biography

Peter Ladefoged, UCLA Research Phonetician and Professor of Phonetics Emeritus, was Director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory from 1962 to 1991. His numerous books include Vowels and Consonants (Blackwell, 2001), Sounds of the World’s Languages (with Ian Maddieson, Blackwell, 1996), and A Course in Phonetics (fourth edition, 2001).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	x
Recording the sounds of a language	1	(31)
Deciding what to record	1	(11)
Finding speakers	12	(4)
Recording systems	16	(5)
Making a recording	21	(4)
Digital recording	25	(1)
Listening to recordings	26	(2)
Making field notes	28	(2)
Instrumental phonetic techniques	30	(2)
Finding the places of articulation	32	(22)
Still and video photography	32	(4)
Basic palatography	36	(6)
More elaborate palatography	42	(9)
Electropalatography	51	(2)
Further reading	53	(1)
Aerodynamic investigations	54	(21)
Recording air pressure and airflow	54	(7)
Measuring air pressure and airflow	61	(3)
Interpreting aerodynamic records	64	(5)
Quantifying nasalization	69	(2)
Aerodynamic investigation of phonation types	71	(1)
Electroglottography	72	(1)
Further reading	73	(2)
Pitch, loudness, and length	75	(29)
Pitch analysis	75	(8)
Interpreting pitch curves	83	(3)
Phonological considerations	86	(4)
Loudness, intensity, and stress	90	(4)
Waveforms and the measurement of duration	94	(9)
Further reading	103	(1)
Characterizing vowels	104	(34)
Sound spectrograms	104	(13)
Spectra	117	(9)
Vowel charts	126	(9)
Nasalized vowels	135	(2)
Further reading	137	(1)
Acoustic analysis of consonants	138	(31)
Waveforms, spectrograms, and duration measurements	138	(5)
Spectral characteristics of nasals, laterals, approximants, and trills	143	(9)
Fricatives and stop bursts	152	(7)
Spectrograms and place of articulation	159	(6)
Spectrograms and articulatory movements	165	(3)
Further reading	168	(1)
Acoustic analysis of phonation types	169	(13)
Waveforms of different glottal states	169	(8)
Spectral characteristics of phonation types	177	(4)
Further reading	181	(1)
Coda	182	(12)
A general-purpose phonetics laboratory	182	(3)
More elaborate instrumental phonetic techniques	185	(4)
Before and after fieldwork	189	(4)
Further reading	193	(1)
Index	194