TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roach,Peter
TI  - Phonetics
SN  - 0194372391 (pbk)
AV  - P221 .R63 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Phonetics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and a glossary; ''This book introduces the readers to the main areas of phonetics, including how speech sounds are made and how phoneticians classify them in certain ways, how sounds are transmitted from speaker to hearer, the International Phonetic Alphabet, tones and intonations, ascoustics, sounds in systems, connected speech, and variation in accents.'' (Book Cover); CONTENTS:; Preface; SECTION 1; Survey; 1. The Science of Speech; The speech chain; Phonetics; Phonetics and linguistics; 2. Making Speech Sounds; Speech and breathing; The larynx; The vocal tract above the larynx; Describing speech production; 3. Classifying Speech Sounds; Vowels; Consonants; 4. Tone and Tone Languages; Lexical and grammatical use of tone; Tone levels and contours; Tones and contexts; Tones and pitch-accents; 5. Suprasegmentals; Stress and accent; Intonation; Rhythm; Other suprasegmental features; 6. Acoustics of Speech Sounds; Acoustic waveforms; Acoustic and articulatory classification of speech sounds; Acoustics of suprasegmental features; 7. Sounds in Systems; Systems of Sounds; Groups of Sounds; 8. Connected Speech and Coarticulation; Assimilation; Coarticulation; Elision; 9. Variation; Regional variation; Social variation; Age and variation; Choosing the speech to study; 10. Conclusion; SECTION 2; Readings; SECTION 3; References; SECTION 4; Glossary
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