Vowels and Consonants

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John Wiley & Sons, 17 jan 2012 - 240 pagina's
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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Vowels and Consonants
Peter Ladefoged,Sandra Ferrari Disner
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2012 by Blackwell 2012 Peter Ladefoged acoustic alphabet alveolar ridge American English amplitude BBC English beginning bilabial breathy voice breathy-voiced cartilage chapter closure contrast creaky voice dialects diphone distinguish ejective English vowels formant frequencies glottal stop group of overtones hear heed intonation IPA symbols Ladefoged and Sandra language spoken larynx lip rounding listen loudness lower manner of articulation mouth movements muscles nasalized vowels occur palatoalveolar pattern Peter Ladefoged phonetic symbol phoneticians pitch track places of articulation possible produced pronounced pronunciation Published 2012 refer to www.wiley.com/go/ladefoged resonances Sandra Ferrari Disner second formant sentence sequence shown in Figure shows similar sound wave Spanish speakers spectrogram speech recognition speech recognition system speech sounds speech synthesis stored syllable synthesize third formant three formants tones tongue positions trill TTS systems velar vocal folds vocal tract voice quality voiceless Vowels and Consonants waveform Words illustrating world’s languages

Over de auteur (2012)

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.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelVowels and Consonants
AuteursPeter Ladefoged, Sandra Ferrari Disner
Editie3
UitgeverJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012
ISBN144435504X, 9781444355048
Lengte240 pagina's
  
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