Phonetics : Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception

by Reetz, Henning; Jongman, Allard

• ISBN13: 9780631232254
• ISBN10: 0631232257
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Providing a comprehensive overview of the four primary areas of phonetics, Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception is an ideal guide to the complete study of speech and sound. An accessible but in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics Covers all four areas of phonetics: transcription, production, acoustics, and perception Offers uniquely thorough coverage of related relevant areas, including vocal fold vibration and the working of the ear, creating an engagingly flexible work for instructors Includes chapter-by-chapter exercises, enabling students to put their knowledge into practice Written in a clear and concise style by two of the field's leading scholars Accompanied by a companion website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/phonetics (available on publication), featuring additional resources such as sound files.

Author Biography

Henning Reetz has a Ph.D. in Phonetics from the University of Amsterdam and is a Professor at the Institute for Phonetics and Phonology at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

Allard Jongman has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Brown University and is a Professor in the Linguistics Department of the University of Kansas, and Co-Director of the University of Kansas Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Laboratory (KUPPL). Dr Jongman has published extensively on acoustic and auditory phonetics in a variety of languages.

Table of Contents

Preface

About this book

Phonetics in a nutshell

The structure of this book

Terminology

Demonstrations and exercises

Articulatory Phonetics

Phonation at the larynx

Basic articulatory terms

The articulation of consonants

The articulation of vowels

Phonetic Transcription

Consonants

Vowels

Diacritics and other symbols

Transcription of General American English

Place and Manner of Articulation of Consonants and Vowels

Consonants

Additional manners of articulation

Vowels

Secondary articulations

Physiology of the Vocal Apparatus

The subglottal system: lungs, bronchi, and trachea

Structure and function of the larynx

Vocal tract

Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types

Airstream mechanisms

Phonation types

Voicing, voicelessness, and aspiration in plosives

Common and rare sounds

Basic Acoustics

Sound waves

Measuring sound waves

Acoustic dimensions and their units of measurement

Analysis Methods for Speech Sounds

Digitizing acoustic signals

Types of acoustic signals

Analyzing acoustic signals

The Source-filter Theory of Speech Production

Resonance

Damping

Filters

Source and filter of the vocal apparatus

Formants

Acoustic Characteristics of Speech Sounds

Vowels

Consonants

Summary

Variability and invariance

Syllables and Suprasegmentals

Syllables

Stress

Length

Tone and Intonation

Physiology and Psychophysics of Hearing

The external ear

The middle ear

The inner ear

The structure of the basilar membrane

Sound localization

Auditory frequency scales

Auditory loudness scales

Auditory time scales

Speech Perception

Vowels

Consonants

Contributions of the Motor Theory of Speech Perception

The role of linguistic experience in speech perception

Summary

Mass, force, and pressure

Energy, power, and intensity

The decibel (dB)

Physical terminology

Mathematical notations

Formant values

Fundamental frequency values

Glossary

References

Index

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