Providing a complete introduction to the study of phonetics for beginning and intermediate students, this text includes exercises to help test student's understanding. (Record no. 38541)

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ISBN 9780340700099
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ISBN 0340700092
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ISBN 9780340700105
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ISBN 0340700106
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Classification number 421.5
Item number BAL
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Personal name Ball,Martin J.
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Title Providing a complete introduction to the study of phonetics for beginning and intermediate students, this text includes exercises to help test student's understanding.
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Place of publication London : Arnold ;
-- New York :
Name of publisher Oxford University Press,
Year of publication 1999.
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Number of Pages vii, 239 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
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General note Includes Index
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Formatted contents note 1. The anatomy and physiology of speech --<br/>2. Initiation of speech --<br/>3. Speech articulation --<br/>4. Segments of speech: obstruent consonants --<br/>5. Segments of speech: sonorant cosonants and vowels --<br/>6. Suprasegments of speech --<br/>7. Multiple articulations, co-articulation and the parameters of speech --<br/>8. Principles and methods of phonetic transcription --<br/>9. Acoustic characteristics of speech --<br/>10. The perception of speech --<br/>11. Perceptual phonetics --<br/>12. Instrumental phonetics --<br/>App. 1. Phonetics charts.
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Summary, etc In their comprehensive new introduction to phonetics, Ball and Rahilly offer a detailed explanation of the process of speech production, from the anatomical initiation of sounds and their modification in the larynx, through to the final articulation of vowels and consonants in the oral and nasal tracts. This textbook is one of the few to give a balanced account of segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech, showing clearly that the communication chain is incomplete without accurate production of both individual speech sounds (segmental features) and aspects such as stress and intonation (suprasegmental features). Throughout the book the authors provide advice on transcription, primarily using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Students are expertly guided from basic attempts to record speech sounds on paper, to more refined accounts of phonetic detail in speech. The authors go on to explain acoustic phonetics in a manner accessible both to new students in phonetics, and to those who wish to advance their knowledge of key pursuits in the area, including the sound spectrograph. They describe how speech waves can be measured, as well as considering how they are heard and decoded by listeners, discussing both physiological and neurological aspects of hearing and examining the methods of psychoacoustic experimentation. A range of instrumentation for studying speech production is also presented. The next link is acoustic phonetics, the study of speech transmission. Here the authors introduce the basic concepts of sound acoustics and the instrumentation used to analyse the characteristics of speech waves. Finally, the chain is completed by examining auditory phonetics, and providing a fascinating psychoacoustic experimentation, used to determine what parts of the speech signal are most crucial for listener understanding. The book concludes with a comprehensive survey and description of modern phonetic instrumentation, from the sound spectrograph to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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Topical Term Phonetics.
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Personal name Rahilly, Joan
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Reference Main Library Main Library Reference 22/03/2004 Purchased 2023.65 421.5 BAL 008719 Reference Books

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