Phonetics

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ISBN: 9780194372398 | 0194372391
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/6/2001

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This series provides brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study. This book leads the reader through the main areas of phonetics, including how speech sounds are made and how phoneticians classify them in certain ways. The International Phonetic Alphabet and how wounds are transmitted from speaker to recipient are covered.

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Preface

Survey
The science of speech
The speech chain
Phonetics
Phonetics and linguistics
Making speech sounds
Speech and breathing
The larynx
The vocal tract above the larynx
Describing speech production
Classifying speech sounds
Vowels
Consonants
Tone and tone languages
Lexical and grammatical use of tone
Tone levels and contours
Tones and context
Tones and pitch-accents
Suprasegmentals
Stress and accent
Intonation
Rhythm
Other suprasegmental features
Acoustics of speech sounds
Acoustic waveforms
Acoustic and articulatory classification of speech sounds
Acoustics of suprasegmental features
Sounds in systems
Systems of sounds
Groups of sounds
Connected speech and coarticulation
Assimilation
Coarticulation
Elision
Variation
Regional variation
Social variation
Style variation
Age and variation
Choosing the speech to study
Conclusion

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Phonetics

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