Acoustic Phonetics - The MIT Press

January 1999
7 x 10, 617 pp., 700 illus.
$130.00/£96.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-19404-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-19404-4

Paper (2000)

Current Studies in Linguistics

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Acoustic Phonetics
Kenneth N. Stevens

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This long-awaited work presents a theory of speech-sound generation in the human vocal system. The comprehensive acoustic theory serves as one basis for defining categories of speech sounds used to form distinctions between words in languages. The author begins with a review of the anatomy and physiology of speech production, then covers source mechanisms, the vocal tract as an acoustic filter, relevant aspects of auditory psychophysics and physiology, and phonological representations. In the remaining chapters he presents a detailed examination of vowels, consonants, and the influence of context on speech sound production. Although he focuses mainly on the sounds of English, he touches briefly on sounds in other languages.

The book will serve as a reference for speech scientists, speech pathologists, linguists interested in phonetics and phonology, psychologists interested in speech perception and production, and engineers concerned with speech processing applications.

"Whenever anybody—linguist, speech pathologist, or communication engineer—wants to know why the acoustic structure of a particular sound is as it is, this is the book to which they will turn. There is absolutely no other book with anything like this depth of coverage."
—Peter Ladefoged, Professor of Phonetics Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles

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