Phonetics

by Roach, Peter; Widdowson, H. G.

• ISBN13: 9780194372398
• ISBN10: 0194372391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This series provides brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study. This book leads the reader through the main areas of phonetics, including how speech sounds are made and how phoneticians classify them in certain ways. The International Phonetic Alphabet and how wounds are transmitted from speaker to recipient are covered.

Table of Contents

Preface

Survey

The science of speech

The speech chain

Phonetics

Phonetics and linguistics

Making speech sounds

Speech and breathing

The larynx

The vocal tract above the larynx

Describing speech production

Classifying speech sounds

Vowels

Consonants

Tone and tone languages

Lexical and grammatical use of tone

Tone levels and contours

Tones and context

Tones and pitch-accents

Suprasegmentals

Stress and accent

Intonation

Rhythm

Other suprasegmental features

Acoustics of speech sounds

Acoustic waveforms

Acoustic and articulatory classification of speech sounds

Acoustics of suprasegmental features

Sounds in systems

Systems of sounds

Groups of sounds

Connected speech and coarticulation

Assimilation

Coarticulation

Elision

Variation

Regional variation

Social variation

Style variation

Age and variation

Choosing the speech to study

Conclusion

Readings

References

Glossary

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