Speech Physiology, Speech Perception, and Acoustic Phonetics

✍ Scribed by Philip Lieberman, Sheila E. Blumstein

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Speech Science and Communication
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook has been carefully designed to provide a thorough introduction to the study of speech. It assumes no technical background, and students from a wide variety of disciplines contributing to this new and exciting field will find the exposition fully accessible. Each chapter progresses from simple examples to more detailed discussions of recent primary research and concludes with stimulating problem sets. All topics essential for a basic understanding of the field are included: the physiological, biological, and neurological bases of speech; the physics of sound; the source-filter theory of speech production; and the underlying principles of electrical and computer models of speech production.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Contents......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 9
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 Introduction......Page 17
The three physiological components of speech production......Page 19
The subglottal respiratory system......Page 21
The larynx......Page 26
The supralaryngeal vocal tract......Page 29
The neural processing of speech......Page 30
G raphs and physical measurements......Page 32
Sinusoidal waves......Page 36
Fourier analysis......Page 40
Amplitude and frequency scales for speech......Page 43
Filters......Page 45
The laryngeal source......Page 50
The supralaryngeal filter......Page 52
The perception of fundamental and formant frequencies......Page 54
Formant frequency calculation......Page 58
Formant lowering and vocal tract length......Page 63
5 Speech analysis......Page 67
The sound spectrograph......Page 68
Interpreting spectrograms - how the spectrograph works......Page 75
Measuring formant frequencies on spectrograms......Page 80
Tape recording techniques......Page 89
Computer-implemented procedures......Page 93
6 Anatomy and physiology of speech production......Page 106
The lungs......Page 107
The larynx......Page 113
The supralaryngeal vocal tract......Page 130
Vocoder synthesizers......Page 156
Speech synthesis and segmentation......Page 158
Speech encoding......Page 161
The “motor theory” of speech perception......Page 163
The speech “mode” of perception.......Page 164
Neural acoustic property detectors......Page 165
Electrophysiological and comparative studies......Page 166
Psychoacoustic tests......Page 168
Critical bands......Page 175
8 Phonetic theories......Page 178
Traditional “articulatory" phonctic theory......Page 179
Vowels......Page 180
Phonetic features......Page 199
Prosodic features......Page 214
Linguistic universals and biological structuring......Page 219
The evolution of human speech......Page 221
Ontogenetic development of spccch......Page 225
Speech pathologies......Page 229
Aphasia......Page 230
Vowels......Page 237
Stop consonants......Page 240
Liquids and glides......Page 242
Fricatives......Page 243
Bibliography......Page 244
Index......Page 258