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Vowels and Consonants

Paperback Engels 2012 3e druk 9781444334296
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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

-Supported by an accompanying website at www.vowelsandconsonants3e.com featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life

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ISBN13:9781444334296
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:230
Druk:3
Verschijningsdatum:20-2-2012

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Table of Web Content ix
Author s Preface from the First Edition xiii
Preface to the Third Edition xiv
Acknowledgments from the Previous Editions xvi
The International Phonetic Alphabet xviii

1 Sounds and Languages 1
1.1 Languages Come and Go 1
1.2 The Evolving Sounds of Languages 4
1.3 Language and Speech 5
1.4 Describing Speech Sounds 6
1.5 Summary 9

2 Pitch and Loudness 11
2.1 Tones 11
2.2 English Intonation 14
2.3 The Vocal Folds 20
2.4 Loudness Differences 23
2.5 Summary 24

3 Vowel Contrasts 26
3.1 Sets of Vowels and Standard Forms of a Language 26
3.2 English Vowels 28
3.3 Summary 31

4 The Sounds of Vowels 32
4.1 Acoustic Structure of Vowels 32
4.2 The Acoustic Vowel Space 35
4.3 Spectrographic Displays 37
4.4 Summary 38

5 Charting Vowels 39
5.1 Formants One and Two 39
5.2 Accents of English 43
5.3 Formant Three 46
5.4 Summary 47

6 The Sounds of Consonants 48
6.1 Consonant Contrasts 48
6.2 Stop Consonants 48
6.3 Approximants 53
6.4 Nasals 54
6.5 Fricatives 55
6.6 Summary 60

7 Acoustic Components of Speech 62
7.1 The Principal Acoustic Components 62
7.2 Synthesizing Speech 64
7.3 Summary 67

8 Talking Computers 68
8.1 Words in Context 68
8.2 Our Implicit Knowledge 72
8.3 Synthesizing Sounds from a Phonetic Transcription 75
8.4 Applications 78
8.5 Summary 81

9 Listening Computers 82
9.1 Patterns of Sound 82
9.2 The Basis of Computer Speech Recognition 87
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