Phonetics - the study and classification of speech sounds - is a major sub-discipline of linguistics. Bringing together a team of internationally renowned phoneticians, this handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the most recent, cutting-edge work in the field, and focuses on the most widely-debated contemporary issues. Chapters are divided into five thematic areas: segmental production, prosodic production, measuring speech, audition and perception, and applications of phonetics. Each chapter presents an historical overview of the area, along with critical issues, current research and advice on the best practice for teaching phonetics to undergraduates. It brings together global perspectives, and includes examples from a wide range of languages, allowing readers to extend their knowledge beyond English. By providing both state-of-the-art research information, and an appreciation of how it can be shared with students, this handbook is essential both for academic phoneticians, and anyone with an interest in this exciting, rapidly developing field.
Introduction Rachael-Anne Knight and Jane Setter; Part I. Segmental Production: 1. Physiological Foundations Alan Wrench and Janet Mackenzie Beck; 2. Vowels Jarek Weckwerth; 3.Consonants Michael Proctor; 4.Coarticulation Khalil Iskarous and Christine Mooshammer; 5. Processes in Connected Speech Natasha Warner; Part II. Prosodic Production: 6. Stress and Rhythm Marina Noelia Cantarutti and Beatrice Szczepek Reed; 7. Lexical Tone Albert Lee, Peggy Mok; 8. Intonation Paul Warren and Sasha Calhoun; 9.Voice Quality John H. Esling and Scott R. Moisik; Part III. Measuring Speech: 10. Measuring Vowels Byunggon Yang; 11. Measuring Consonants Mauricio A. Figueroa Candia and Young Shin Kim; 12. Measuring Speech Rhythm Amalia Arvaniti; 13. Fundamental Frequency and Pitch Daniel Hirst and Céline De Looze; 14.Observing and Measuring Speech Articulation Susan Lin; 15. Beyond Functional Speech Synthesis Rupal Patel, Geoffrey S. Meltzner and Markus Toman; Part IV. Audition and Perception: 16. Neurological Foundations of Phonetic Sciences Francis C. K. Wong, Mark Antoniou and Patrick C. M. Wong; 17. Psycholinguistic Aspects Meghan Sumner and Seung Kyung Kim; 18. Phonetics and Eye-Tracking Eva Reinisch and Holger Mitterer; 19. Automatic Speech Recognition by Machines Sabato Marco Siniscalchi and Chin-Hui Lee; Part V. Applications of Phonetics: 20. Pedagogical Approaches Rachael-Anne Knight, Jane Setter and Nicole Whitworth; 21. Pronunciation Teaching Jane Setter and Takehiko Makino; 22. Sociophonetics Katie Drager and Thomas Kettig; 23. Developmental Phonetics of Speech Production Yvan Rose, Tara McAllister and Sharon Inkelas; 24. Clinical Phonetics Matthew Moreland; 25. Forensic Phonetics Toby Hudson, Kirsty McDougall, Vincent Hughes; 26. The Phonetics of Talk in Interaction Richard Ogden; 27. The Phonetics/Phonology Interface Robert Kennedy.
Rachael-Anne Knight is Professor of Phonetics and Associate Dean Education at City, University of London, with interests in prosody, transcription and pedagogy. She is the author of the successful Phonetics: A Coursebook, and is a National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Jane Setter is Professor of Phonetics at the University of Reading, with interests in global Englishes, prosody and pedagogy. Author of Your Voice Speaks Volumes (2019) and co-editor of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (2011), Jane is a National Teaching Fellow and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
