Vowels and Consonants

Peter Ladefoged 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2012년 01월 17일 출간

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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 languagesWritten by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, Sandra Ferrari DisnerIncludes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and additional updates throughout the bookExplores the acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual components of speech, demonstrates speech synthesis, and explains how speech recognition systems workSupported by an accompanying websiteat www.vowelsandconsonants3e.com featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life

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Table of Web Content ixAuthor&-s Preface from the First Edition xiiiPreface to the Third Edition xivAcknowledgments from the Previous Editions xviThe International Phonetic Alphabet xviii1 Sounds and Languages 11.1 Languages Come and Go 11.2 The Evolving Sounds of Languages 41.3 Language and Speech 51.4 Describing Speech Sounds 61.5 Summary 92 Pitch and Loudness 112.1 Tones 112.2 English Intonation 142.3 The Vocal Folds 202.4 Loudness Differences 232.5 Summary 243 Vowel Contrasts 263.1 Sets of Vowels and Standard Forms of a Language 263.2 English Vowels 283.3 Summary 314 The Sounds of Vowels 324.1 Acoustic Structure of Vowels 324.2 The Acoustic Vowel Space 354.3 Spectrographic Displays 374.4 Summary 385 Charting Vowels 395.1 Formants One and Two 395.2 Accents of English 435.3 Formant Three 465.4 Summary 476 The Sounds of Consonants 486.1 Consonant Contrasts 486.2 Stop Consonants 486.3 Approximants 536.4 Nasals 546.5 Fricatives 556.6 Summary 607 Acoustic Components of Speech 627.1 The Principal Acoustic Components 627.2 Synthesizing Speech 647.3 Summary 678 Talking Computers 688.1 Words in Context 688.2 Our Implicit Knowledge 728.3 Synthesizing Sounds from a Phonetic Transcription 758.4 Applications 788.5 Summary 819 Listening Computers 829.1 Patterns of Sound 829.2 The Basis of Computer Speech Recognition 879.3 Special Context Speech Recognizers 899.4 Recognizing Running Speech 909.5 Different Accents and Different Voices 949.6 More for the Computationally Curious 969.7 Summary 9710 How We Listen to Speech 9910.1 Confusable Sounds 9910.2 Sound Prototypes 10310.3 Tackling the Problem 10710.4 Finding Words 10910.5 Social Interactions 11010.6 Summary 11210.7 Further Reading a

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“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)

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저자(글) Peter Ladefoged

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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.