Articulatory Phonetics

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781405193207
Year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 272


Description:
Articulatory Phonetics presents a concise and non-technical
introduction to the physiological processes involved in producing
sounds in human speech.


Traces the path of the speech production system through to the
point where simple vocal sounds are produced, covering the nervous
system, and muscles, respiration, and phonation

Introduces more complex anatomical concepts of articulatory
phonetics and particular sounds of human speech, including brain
anatomy and coarticulation

Explores the most current methodologies, measurement tools, and
theories in the field

Features chapter-by-chapter exercises and a series of original
illustrations which take the mystery out of the anatomy,
physiology, and measurement techniques relevant to speech
research

Includes a companion website at
www.wiley.com/go/articulatoryphonetics with additional exercises
for each chapter and new, easy-to-understand images of the vocal
tract and of measurement tools/data for articulatory phonetics
teaching and research

Password protected instructor?s material includes an
answer key for the additional exercises