基本説明
Includes contributions from active researchers in the field; incorporates exercises in each chapter; and has a companion website that provides materials for the exercises.
Full Description
Sociophonetics: a student's guide provides a practical 'how-to' manual that will give students a clear understanding of the technical and theoretical advances in acoustic phonetics, speech perception, and recording technology which is essential for sociolinguistic research.
Balancing theory, practical information and research protocol, this book:
Covers the key methodological, technical and procedural information needed to undertake sociophonetic research
Includes contributions from key academics and ground-breaking researchers
Incorporates exercises and projects in each chapter
Has a companion website that provides additional materials for students and professors, featuring exercises, links to on-line sources for specific tools and includes a large selection of audio and video clips.
Sociophonetics is essential reading for graduate students and researchers with interests in sociophonetics, phonology and for those undertaking research projects in applied linguistics.
Contents
Contents 1. Introduction 2. Field Methods: gathering data, creating a corpus, and reporting your work 3. Making a Field Recording 4. Transcription 5. Issues in Using Legacy Data 6. Analyzing Stops 7. Analyzing Liquids 8. Analyzing Vowels 9. More on Vowels: Plotting and Normalization 10. Analyzing Prosody: Best Practices for the Analysis of Prosody 11. Acoustical Analysis of Voice Quality for Sociophonetic Purposes 12. Experimental Speech Perception and Perceptual Dialectology 13. Working with Children 14. Ascertaining Word Classes 15. Checking for Reliability 16. Statistical Analysis References
