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Vowels and Consonants
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Artikel-Nr:
9781444334296
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.02.2012
Seiten:
240
Autor:
Peter Ladefoged
Gewicht:
405 g
Format:
244x170x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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
* Will be supported by a forthcoming accompanying website featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life
* 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
* Will be supported by a forthcoming accompanying website featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life
This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition and now includes an accompanying website. While maintaining Peter Ladefoged s expert writing and knowledge of sounds in language, Sandy Disner brings essential updates on topics such as speech technology.
Table of Web Content
Author's Preface from First Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements from the Previous Editinos
The International Phonetic Alphabet
1. Sounds and Languages
2. Pitch and Loudness
3. Vowel Contrasts
4. The Sounds of Vowels
5. Charting Vowels
6. The Sounds of Consonants
7. Acoustic Components of Speech
8. Talking Computers
9. Listening Computers
10. How We Listen to Speech
11. Making English Consonants
12. Making English Vowels
13. Actions of the Larynx
14. Consonants Around the World
15. Vowels Around the World
16. Putting Vowels and Consonants Together
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
Author's Preface from First Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements from the Previous Editinos
The International Phonetic Alphabet
1. Sounds and Languages
2. Pitch and Loudness
3. Vowel Contrasts
4. The Sounds of Vowels
5. Charting Vowels
6. The Sounds of Consonants
7. Acoustic Components of Speech
8. Talking Computers
9. Listening Computers
10. How We Listen to Speech
11. Making English Consonants
12. Making English Vowels
13. Actions of the Larynx
14. Consonants Around the World
15. Vowels Around the World
16. Putting Vowels and Consonants Together
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
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