Preface
About the Authors
Part I Introductory Concepts
Chapter 1
Articulation and Acoustics
Speech Production
Sound Waves
Places of Articulatory Gestures
The Oro-Nasal Process
Manners of Articulation
Stop
Fricative
Approximant
Lateral (Approximant)
Additional Consonantal Gestures
The Acoustics of Consonants
The Articulation of Vowel Sounds
The Sounds of Vowels
Suprasegmentals
Recap
Exercises
Chapter 2
Phonology and Phonetic Transcription
The Transcription of Consonants
The Transcription of Vowels
Consonant and Vowel Charts
Phonology
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
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Chapter 3
The Consonants of English
Stop Consonants
Fricatives
Affricates
Nasals
Approximants
Overlapping Gestures
English Consonant Allophones
Diacritics
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Chapter 4
English Vowels
Transcription and Phonetic Dictionaries
Vowel Quality
The Auditory Vowel Space
American and British Vowels
Diphthongs
Rhotic Vowels
Lexical Sets
Unstressed Syllables
Tense and Lax Vowels
English Vowel Allophones
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Chapter 5
English Words and Sentences
Words in Connected Speech
Stress
Degrees of Stress
Sentence Rhythm
Intonation
Target Tones
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
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Chapter 6
Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types
Airstream Mechanisms
States of the Glottis
Voice Onset Time
Summary of Actions of the Glottis
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Chapter 7
Consonantal Gestures
Articulatory Targets
Types of Articulatory Gestures
Stops
Nasals
Fricatives
Trills, Taps, and Flaps
Laterals
Summary of Manners of Articulation
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Chapter 8
Acoustic Phonetics
Source/Filter Theory
Tube Models
Perturbation Theory
Acoustic Analysis
Acoustics of Consonants
Interpreting Spectrograms
Individual Differences
Recap
Exercises
Chapter 9
Vowels and Vowel-Like Articulations
Cardinal Vowels
Secondary Cardinal Vowels
Vowels in Other Accents of English
Vowels in Other Languages
Advanced Tongue Root
Rhotacized Vowels
Nasalization
Summary of Vowel Quality
Semivowels
Secondary Articulatory Gestures
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Chapter 10
Syllables and Suprasegmental Features
Syllables
Stress
Length
Timing
Intonation and Tone
Stress, Tone, and Pitch Accent Languages
Recap
Exercises
Performance Exercises
Chapter 11
Linguistic Phonetics
Phonetics of the Community and of the Individual
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Feature Hierarchy
A Problem with Linguistic Explanations
Controlling Articulatory Movements
Memory for Speech
The Balance Between Phonetic Forces
Recap
Performance Exercises
Appendix A: Additional Material for Transcription
Appendix B: Guidelines for Contributors to the Journal of the International
Phonetic Association
Notes
Glossary
Further Reading
Index