A Guide to Speech Production and Perception

by Tatham, Mark; Morton, Katherine

• ISBN13: 9780748636525
• ISBN10: 0748636528
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-22
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton situate speech production and perception within a total system view of the communication processes in which speaker and listener are essential and complementary contributors. Their approach is the result of an increasing awareness of the need to understand processes of speech production and the perception of spoken language, with the ultimate goal being to advance an integrated model of spoken language production and perception.This book guides students through classical phonetics, modern phonetics, and a set of exemplar applications (such as language teaching, pathological or clinical practice, and speech technology) and shows how they are of interest to other disciplines, such as sociolinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology. Themes and ideas explored include production-for-perception, or what sounds speakers plan and produce, how they are produced, and suggestions about why, all the while emphasizing the collaborating role of the listener; an emphasis on an integrated model of production and perception; attention to the biology underlying the production of sounds; attention to the cognitive system underlying the planning of utterances and what makes sounds uniquely speech sounds; and the relationship between phonology, or the cognitive intention to produce speech sounds, and phonetics, or the rendering of that intention as categories of sounds percievable to the listener.

Author Biography

Mark Tatham is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Katharine Morton has been Fellow in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.

Table of Contents

Detailed Table of Contents	p. iv
Introduction	p. 1
What is Speaking?	p. 6
Studying Speaking	p. 21
The Foundation Research	p. 47
Contemporaiy Model Building	p. 76
Theoretical Considerations	p. 97
Essentials in Describing Speech	p. 110
Hearing and Perception	p. 126
Theories of Speech Perception	p. 152
Applications	p. 169
Experimental Work I - Non-Acoustics	p. 204
Experimental Work II - Acoustics	p. 221
Conclusion	p. 244
References	p. 246
Definitions Index	p. 254
Explanations Index	p. 255
Author and Subject Index	p. 257
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