Vowels and Consonants

Ladefoged, Peter / Ferrari Disner, Sandra

3. Auflage Februar 2012
230 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4443-3429-6

John Wiley & Sons

Kurzbeschreibung

This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition and now includes an accompanying website. While maintaining Peter Ladefoged's expert writing and knowledge of sounds in language, Sandy Disner brings essential updates on topics such as speech technology. It outlines the acoustic components of speech and demonstrates speech synthesis describes text-to-speech systems and show how speech recognition systems work, and includes descriptions of the sounds of a wide variety of languages that are introduced on the accompanying website. The third edition also includes updates in speech technology.

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This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as speech technology.

* Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages
* Written by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, Sandra Ferrari Disner
* Includes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and additional updates throughout the book
* Explores the acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual components of speech, demonstrates speech synthesis, and explains how speech recognition systems work
* Will be supported by a forthcoming accompanying website featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life

Table of Web Content
Author's Preface from First Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements from the Previous Editinos
The International Phonetic Alphabet
1. Sounds and Languages
2. Pitch and Loudness
3. Vowel Contrasts
4. The Sounds of Vowels
5. Charting Vowels
6. The Sounds of Consonants
7. Acoustic Components of Speech
8. Talking Computers
9. Listening Computers
10. How We Listen to Speech
11. Making English Consonants
12. Making English Vowels
13. Actions of the Larynx
14. Consonants Around the World
15. Vowels Around the World
16. Putting Vowels and Consonants Together
Glossary
Further Reading
Index

Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006) was Research Phonetician and Professor of Phonetics Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was Director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory from 1962 to 1991 and was president of the Linguistic Society of America. He is the author of numerous books, including The Sounds of the World's Languages (with I. Maddieson, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), Phonetic Data Analysis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), and A Course in Phonetics, Sixth Edition (with Keith Johnson, 2010).

Sandra Ferrari Disner teaches general and forensic linguistics at the University of Southern California. She has over 25 years of experience in speech technology, having developed commercial text-to-speech and speech-recognition systems in five languages, as well as the world's first talking video games.

P. Ladefoged, Late of University of California, Los Angeles, USA; S. Ferrari Disner, University of Southern California, USA