| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Phonetics and language -- Phonetic transcription -- Anatomy and physiology of speech -- Air pressure and aerodynamics -- Consonants -- Vowels -- Sounds of North American English -- Voice, phonation, and nasality -- Airstream mechanisms: clicks, implosives, ejectives, esophageal speech -- Speech dynamics -- Suprasegmentals -- Acoustics -- Interlocutors: talkers and hearers |
| Summary |
Written in a clear, approachable way, this textbook provides an introduction to the science of phonetics: how speech sounds are produced, how we classify them, and how they are processed to allow the rapid transmission of language-based messages. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is ideal for a beginner to the field |
| Subject |
Phonetics -- Textbooks
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Speech -- Textbooks
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Phonetics
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Speech
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108694339 |
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1108694330 |
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