Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of research, history and techniques in phonetics. With contributions from 41 prominent authors from North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, and including over 130 figures to illustrate key points, this handbook covers all the most important areas in the field, including:
• the history and scope of techniques used, including speech synthesis, vocal tract imaging techniques, and obtaining information on under-researched languages from language archives;
• the physiological bases of speech and hearing, including auditory, articulatory, and neural explanations of hearing, speech, and language processes;
• theories and models of speech perception and production related to the processing of consonants, vowels, prosody, tone, and intonation;
• linguistic phonetics, with discussions of the phonetics-phonology interface, sound change, second language acquisition, sociophonetics, and second language teaching research;
• applications and extensions, including phonetics and gender, clinical phonetics, and forensic phonetics.
The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics will be indispensable reading for students and practitioners in the fields of speech, language, linguistics and hearing sciences.
Contents
List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Editors' acknowledgments
Editor's introduction: A handbook of phonetics
I History, scope, and techniques
History of speech synthesis
Brad H. Story
Advances in vocal tract imaging and analysis
Asterios Toutios, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, & Shrikanth Narayanan
Under-researched languages: Phonetic results from language archives
D.W. Whalen & Joyce McDonough
II Physiological basis of speech and hearing
The phonetics of voice
Marc Garellek
Articulatory phonetics
Bryan Gick, Murray Schellenbery, Ian Stavness, & Ryan C. Taylor
Neural bases of speech production
Jason W. Bohland, Jason A. Tourville & Frank H. Guenther
Phonetics and the auditory system
Matthew Winn & Christian Stilp
Neural bases of auditory and audiovisual speech perception
Jonathan Peelle
III Theories and models of speech perception and production
The acoustics and perception of North American English vowels
James M. Hillenbrand
The phonetic properties of consonants
Marija Tabain
Theories and models of speech perception
Michael Kiefte & Terrance M. Nearey
Prosody, tone, and intonation
Yi Xu
IV Linguistic/perceptual phonetics
The interface between phonetics and phonology
John Kingston
The phonetic basis of the origin and spread of sound change
Jonathan Harrington, Felicitas Kleber, Ulrich Reubold, Florian Schiel, & Mary Stevens
The phonetics of second language learning and bilingualism
Charles B. Chang
Innovations in sociophonetics
Erik R. Thomas
Phonetics and second language teaching research
Murray J. Munro & Tracey M. Derwing
V Applications and extensions
The phonetics of sex and gender
Benjamin Munson and Molly Babel
New horizons in clinical phonetics
William F. Katz
Vocal tract models in phonetic teaching and research
Takayuki Arai
Introduction to forensic voice comparison
Geoffrey Morrison & Ewald Etzinger
Index
