Clinical Phonetics

A comprehensive introduction to the art and science of clinical transcription. Clinical Phoneticswas written with the belief that the clinical application of phonetics is a specialized branch of the field that requires a particular sensitivity to the challenge of transcribing speech disorders. The three primary strengths of the fourth edition of this text continue to be: authoritative coverage of the phonetics of American English, tested skills teaching in clinical transcription using four hours of audio examples (CDs sold separately), and the discussion of a wealth of clinically-relevant topics throughout the text and numerous appendices. Other notable features of the book are its broad coverage of phonetics, including an overview of the anatomy of speech production; phonetic symbols for consonants, vowels and diphthongs; diacritics for narrow transcription; representing suprasegmentals such as stress pattern; acoustic properties of speech; and dialect. This newly revised edition of Clinical Phonetics preserves the strengths of the earlier editions but offers significant improvements in content and style.

Lawrence D. Shriberg, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Disorders and a principal investigator in the Communicative and Cognitive Sciences Group, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is centered on genetic and other origins of pediatric speech sound disorders of known and unknown origin.

Raymond D. Kent, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has been primarily in the acoustics and physiology of speech, typical and atypical development of speech in children, and neurogenic communication disorders in children and adults with an emphasis on acoustic analysis and the assessment of intelligibility.

About the Authors
What’s New in This Edition
Foreword
Preface
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Notes to Instructors
Contents of the Audio Samples

Chapter 1 - Overview of Clinical Phonetics

Chapter 2 - Linguistic Phonetics

Chapter 3 - The Three Systems of Speech Production

Chapter 4 - Vowels and Diphthongs

Chapter 5 - Consonants

Chapter 6 - Suprasegmentals and Narrow Transcription

Chapter 7 - Clinical Scoring and Transcription

Chapter 8 - Transcription Training
     Part A: Transcription of Vowel and Diphthong Sound Changes
     Part B: Transcription of Stop Sound Changes
     Part C: Transcription of Fricatives and Affricate Sound Changes
     Part D: Transcription of Glide and Liquid Sound Changes
     Part E: Transcription of Nasal Sound Changes

Chapter 9 - Transcription And Scoring Practice

Chapter 10 - Phonetic Variations
     Transcription Exercises

Appendix A - Phonetics Symbols and Terms

Appendix B - Distributional, Structural, and Proportional Occurrence Data for American English Sounds, Syllables, and Words

Glossary
Answers to Exercises
References
Index