Principles of PhoneticsThis major new textbook is designed for readers who wish to pursue the study of phonetics from an initial to an advanced stage. It moves from a discussion of general concepts to a total of eleven chapters on phonetic classification, and it includes discussion of other issues such as the relationship between phonetics and phonology. There are illustrations from over 500 of the world's languages. Principles of Phonetics will be required reading for all serious students of speech and language. |
Contents
1 | 23 |
of a single speaker | 66 |
The phonetic analysis of speech | 95 |
The architecture of phonetic classification | 119 |
segmental description | 129 |
Airstream mechanisms | 161 |
Phonation | 184 |
Stop articulations | 205 |
segmental duration | 431 |
pitch and loudness | 450 |
48 | 466 |
stress syllable weight | 511 |
continuity and rate | 534 |
Types of transcription | 549 |
Evaluating general phonetic theory | 565 |
2a Voiceless oral stops in 317 languages | 580 |
Resonant articulations | 269 |
Multiple articulations | 314 |
Intersegmental coordination | 339 |
Phonetic similarity and multisegmental settings | 391 |
26 | 395 |
The phonetic alphabet of the International Phonetic | 593 |
622 | |
685 | |
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accent acoustic active articulator affricates airflow airstream mechanism allophonic alveolar tapped analysis approximant articulatory aspect of articulation aspiration audible auditory Catford central chapter closure co-ordinatory configuration consonants constriction context contoids contrast creaky voice dental described devoicing diacritic dialect diphthongs discussed duration ejective English example feature Figure fricative fricative segments glottal glottis guages implosives ingressive intonation labels labial Ladefoged languages larynx lateral resonants Laver lexical lexical stress linguistic Maddieson medial phase nasal stop neutral onset oral stop palatal palato-alveolar paralinguistic patterns perceptual pharynx phonation type phonatory phonetic phonetic theory phonological pitch place of articulation position post-alveolar pre-nasal production pronunciation prosodic pulmonic egressive release retroflex scalar degree secondary articulation sequence setting sounds speakers speech spoken stop segments stress structure syllable symbol tapped stop tion tone tongue transcription utterance uvular versus vocal folds vocal tract vocoid vocoid space voiceless vowel whispery voice words