author: peter ladefoged

Ladefoged's authoritative text "A Course in Phonetics, International Edition" is updated with expanded sections on acoustics, inclusion of MRIs, a revised CD with new sound files, and many other changes

Important topics covered in Vowels and Consonants include: The main forces operating on the sounds of languages The acoustic components of speech and speech synthesis Computers and Text-To-Speech systems and speech recognition systems ...

This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ.

... processes : the airstream process , the phonation process , the oro - nasal process , and the articulatory process . As a first simplification we may associate these four processes with the actions of the lungs , the vocal cords , the ...

This is an introductory book on phonetics that will enable readers to go on to read The Sounds of the World's Languages (Blackwell 1996) by Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson, and other more advanced books on phonetics and phonology.

... meaning 'hot' sounds something like er- (the first syllable of early) in Standard Chinese, something like nyih, resembling the center of the word onion with an added glottal stop, in Shanghai, and something that might be spelled yeet in ...

The easy to understand approach builds on the basics, beginning with technical terms required for describing speech and transcription symbols before moving on to the phonetics of English and other languages.