[Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics 01] • Phonetics by Reetz, Henning -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Series Page Title Page Copyright Preface 1: About this Book

1.1 Phonetics in a Nutshell 1.2 The Structure of this Book 1.3 Terminology 1.4 Demonstrations and Exercises

2: Articulatory Phonetics

2.1 Phonation at the Larynx 2.2 Basic Articulatory Terms 2.3 The Articulation of Consonants 2.4 The Articulation of Vowels

3: Phonetic Transcription

3.1 Consonants 3.2 Vowels 3.3 Diacritics and Other Symbols 3.4 Transcription of General American English

4: Place and Manner of Articulation of Consonants and Vowels

4.1 Consonants 4.2 Additional Manners of Articulation 4.3 Vowels 4.4 Secondary Articulations

5: Physiology of the Vocal Apparatus

5.1 The Subglottal System: Lungs, Bronchi, and Trachea 5.2 Structure and Function of the Larynx 5.3 Vocal Tract

6: Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types

6.1 Airstream Mechanisms 6.2 Phonation Types 6.3 Voicing, Voicelessness, and Aspiration in Plosives 6.4 Common and Rare Sounds

7: Basic Acoustics

7.1 Sound Waves 7.2 Measuring Sound Waves 7.3 Acoustic Dimensions and their Units of Measurement

8: Analysis Methods for Speech Sounds

8.1 Digitizing Acoustic Signals 8.2 Types of Acoustic Signals 8.3 Analyzing Acoustic Signals

9: The Source-Filter Theory of Speech Production

9.1 Resonance 9.2 Damping 9.3 Filters 9.4 Source and Filter of the Vocal Apparatus 9.5 Formants

10: Acoustic Characteristics of Speech Sounds

10.1 Vowels 10.2 Consonants 10.3 Summary 10.4 Variability and Invariance

11: Syllables and Suprasegmentals

11.1 Syllables 11.2 Stress 11.3 Length 11.4 Tone and Intonation

12: Physiology and Psychophysics of Hearing

12.1 The External Ear 12.2 The Middle Ear 12.3 The Internal Ear 12.4 The Structure of the Basilar Membrane 12.5 Auditory Frequency Scales 12.6 Auditory Loudness Scales 12.7 Auditory Time Scales

13: Speech Perception

13.1 Vowels 13.2 Consonants 13.3 Contributions of the Motor Theory of Speech Perception 13.4 The Role of Linguistic Experience in Speech Perception 13.5 Summary

Appendix A

A.1 Mass, Force, and Pressure A.2 Energy, Power, and Intensity A.3 The Decibel (dB)

Appendix B

B.1 Physical Terminology B.2 Mathematical Notations

Appendix C

C.1 Formant Frequency Values C.2 Fundamental Frequency Values

References Index THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET