Phonetics : Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception

Providing a comprehensive overview of the four primary areas of phonetics, Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception is an ideal guide to the complete study of speech and sound. Provides an in-depth introduction to the basic concepts of phonetics Written in a clear and concise style by two of the field's leading scholars Enhanced by a companion website that provides exercises for each chapter as well as an array of sound files (http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/phonetics)

Henning Reetz has a Ph.D. in Phonetics from the University of Amsterdam and is a Professor at the Institute for Phonetics and Phonology at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

Allard Jongman has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Brown University and is a Professor in the Linguistics Department of the University of Kansas, and Co-Director of the University of Kansas Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Laboratory (KUPPL). Dr Jongman has published extensively on acoustic and auditory phonetics in a variety of languages.