Vowels and Consonants, 3rd Edition
$57.59
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
20 February 2012
Summary
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 featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444334296 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444334298 |
| Author: | Peter Ladefoged, Sandra Ferrari Disner |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Release Date: | 20 February 2012 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 170mm x 252mm |
Critics Review
“The book is of interest to teachers and would help to develop readers’ perception of speech production and their competence in spoken English. It is a ‘must have’ book that adds richness and knowledge to individuals and libraries.” (Linguist, 31 October 2012)
Peter Ladefoged
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.
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