A Course in Phonetics

✍ Scribed by Peter Ladefoged, Keith Johnson

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• Edition: 7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offering the most current coverage available, A COURSE IN PHONETICS, 7e remains the authoritative text for the study of phonetics. Combining Peter Ladefoged's student-friendly writing style with Keith Johnson's comprehensive presentation, the Seventh Edition introduces concepts of speech production, describes speech in acoustic terms, and teaches practical phonetic skills including IPA transcription. Expanded sections on acoustic phonetics and speech motor control bring instructors up to date and help students use tools for digital inspection and manipulation of speech. Numerous updates include MRI images of vocal tracts. In addition, the thoroughly revised companion website includes interactive exercises, instant spectrograms for every chapter, over 4,000 audio files of nearly 100 languages, and maps keyed to sounds of languages where they are spoken. With its broad overview and numerous examples, A COURSE IN PHONETICS remains the ideal introduction to phonetics-no previous knowledge required!

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
IFC
A Course in Phonetics
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Part I Introductory Concepts
1 Articulation and Acoustics
2 Phonology and Phonetic Transcription
PART II ENGLISH PHONETICS 
3 The Consonants of English
4 English Vowels
5 English Words and Sentences
Part III GENERAL PHONETICS 
6 Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types
7 Consonantal Gestures
8 Acoustic Phonetics
9 Vowels and Vowel-Like Articulations
10 Syllables and Suprasegmental Features
11 Linguistic Phonetics
Appendix A: Additional Material for Transcription
Appendix B: Guidelines for Contributors to the Journal of the International Phonetic Association
Notes
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
IBC