An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
This fully revised third edition integrates updated references, new findings, and modern theories, to present readers with the most thorough and complete introduction to phonetics and phonology.\ \ Exceptionally thorough, including detailed attention to articulatory and acoustic phonetics as well as to the foundations of phonological analysis\ Features a number of valuable changes, incorporating new material on the latest findings in speech production studies; greater coverage of prosody,...
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Asssuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this book offers a thorough introduction to phonetics and phonology. It is unusually comprehensive, including detailed attention to articulatory and acoustic phonetics as well as to the foundations of phonological analysis. The second edition of this hughly successful textbook incorporates several improvements: a completely new chapter on speech perception has been added, the material on anaotomy and physiology has been rearranged and much of the detail placed later in the book to make it less demanding on readers, and the entire text has been edited to help bring it up to date.
List of FiguresList of TablesPreface to the Second EditionList of Abbreviations1Introduction12Segmental Articulation103Units of Speech564The Phonemic Organization of Speech825The Generative Approach to Phonology1286The Anatomy and Physiology of Speech Production1617The Acoustics of Speech Production2068Speech Perception3019Prosody32810Feature Systems36411The Progress of Phonology385Appendix 1: Phonetic Symbols422Appendix 2: Features429References435Index455
\ From the Publisher“A key general-reference text, which assumes no prior knowledge. In this edition, emphasis is placed on acoustic phonetics and phonological analysis, and it incorporates new material on developments in speech production studies, prosody, optimality theory in phonology, L1 and L2 acquisition and sociolectal variation.” Times Higher Education Supplement\ “The third edition of An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology is a welcome update to an introductory volume which for many years has informed and challenged students in equal measures, and will clearly continue to do so.”\ Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle upon Tyne\ \ \
