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Short description Maintaining its balance of accessibility and scholarly rigor, the new edition of Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics provides students with a complete introduction to the physics of speech. Johnson addresses the human auditory system and new to the third edition, the theoretical issues as well as the practical concerns involved in speech perception. The most accessible introduction to the physics of speech available, the book includes suggested readings, engaging side-bars on related topics and exercises designed to review and expand upon the material in each chapter, complete with selected answers.
From the contents Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
Part I Fundamentals 5
1 Basic Acoustics and Acoustic Filters 7
1.1 The Sensation of Sound 7
1.2 The Propagation of Sound 8
1.3 Types of Sounds 11
1.3.1 Simple periodic waves 11
1.3.2 Complex periodic waves 12
1.3.3 Aperiodic waves 17
1.4 Acoustic Filters 19
Recommended Reading 22
Exercises 23
2 The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production: Deriving Schwa 25
2.1 Voicing 25
2.2 Voicing Quanta 28
2.3 Vocal Tract Filtering 30
2.4 Pendulums, Standing Waves, and Vowel Formants 32
2.5 Discovering Nodes and Antinodes in an Acoustic Tube 45
