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John Laver is Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, where he was Deputy Principal. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was appointed CBE in 1999 for contributions to phonetics, and has been President of the International Phonetic Association (1991-95). His publications include The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality (1980), Principles of Phonetics (1994), and The Gift of Speech (1996). He is currently co-authoring The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Speech and Language (forthcoming, Wiley-Blackwell).
Fiona E. Gibbon is Head of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork in Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and her research was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for excellence in 2002. She has published over seventy book chapters and papers in professional and scientific journals, and is co-editor of Vowel Disorders (2002).
Experimental Phonetics | |
Laboratory techniques for investigating speech articulation | |
The aerodynamics of speech | |
Acoustic phonetics | |
Investigating the physiology of laryngeal structures | |
Biological Perspectives | |
Organic variation of the vocal apparatus | |
Brain mechanisms underlying speech motor control | |
Development of neural control of orofacial movements for speech | |
Modelling Speech Production and Perception | |
Speech acquisition | |
Coarticulation and connected speech processes | |
Theories and models of speech production | |
Voice source variation and its communicative functions | |
Articulatory-acoustic relations as the basis of distinctive contrasts | |
Aspects of auditory processing related to speech perception | |
Cognitive processes in speech perception | |
Linguistic Phonetics | |
The prosody of speech: timing and rhythm | |
Tone and intonation | |
The relation between phonetics and phonology | |
Phonetic notation | |
Sociophonetics | |
Speech Technology | |
An introduction to signal processing for speech | |
Speech synthesis | |
Automatic speech recognition | |
References | |
Index | |
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