A Course in Phonetics

✍ Scribed by Peter Ladefoged, Keith Johnson

• Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• 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
Half Title
Title
Statement
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Part I: Introductory Concepts
Ch 1: Articulation and Acoustics
Introduction
Speech Production
Sound Waves
Places of Articulatory Gestures
The Oro-Nasal Process
Manners of Articulation
The Acoustics of Consonants
The Articulation of Vowel Sounds
The Sounds of Vowels
Suprasegmentals
Recap
Exercises
Ch 2: Phonology and Phonetic Transcription
Introduction
The Transcription of Consonants
The Transcription of Vowels
Consonant and Vowel Charts
Phonology
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Part II: English Phonetics
Ch 3: The Consonants of English
Introduction
Stop Consonants
Fricatives
Affricates
Nasals
Approximants
Overlapping Gestures
English Consonant Allophones
Diacritics
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Ch 4: English Vowels
Transcription and Phonetic Dictionaries
Vowel Quality
The Auditory Vowel Space
American and British Vowels
Diphthongs
Rhotic Vowels
Lexical Sets
Unstressed Syllables
Tense and Lax Vowels
English Vowel Allophones
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Ch 5: English Words and Sentences
Words in Connected Speech
Stress
Degrees of Stress
Sentence Rhythm
Intonation
Target Tones
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Part III: General Phonetics
Ch 6: Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types
Introduction
Airstream Mechanisms
States of the Glottis
Voice Onset Time
Summary of Actions of the Glottis
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Ch 7: Consonantal Gestures
Introduction
Articulatory Targets
Types of Articulatory Gestures
Summary of Manners of Articulation
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Ch 8: Acoustic Phonetics
Introduction
Source/Filter Theory
Tube Models
Perturbation Theory
Acoustic Analysis
Acoustics of Consonants
Interpreting Spectrograms
Individual Differences
Recap
Exercises
Ch 9: Vowels and Vowel-Like Articulations
Introduction
Cardinal Vowels
Secondary Cardinal Vowels
Vowels in Other Accents of English
Vowels in Other Languages
Advanced Tongue Root
Rhotacized Vowels
Nasalization
Summary of Vowel Quality
Semivowels
Secondary Articulatory Gestures
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Ch 10: Syllables and Suprasegmental Features
Introduction
Syllables
Stress
Length
Timing
Intonation and Tone
Stress, Tone, and Pitch Accent Languages
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Ch 11: Linguistic Phonetics
Introduction
Phonetics of the Community and of the Individual
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Feature Hierarchy
A Problem with Linguistic Explanations
Controlling Articulatory Movements
Memory for Speech
The Balance Between Phonetic Forces
Recap
Performance Exercises
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