A Course in Phonetics

Cover
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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