'Informative, interesting and well written... an excellent general reference for students and scholars at a variety of levels' Language, reviewing the first edition Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject. this book offers a thorough introduction to phonetics and phonology. It is unusually comprehensive, including detailed attention to articulatory and acoustic phonetics as well as to the foundations of phonolgical analysis. The second edition of this highly successful textbook incorporates several improvements: a completely new chapter on speech perception has been added: the material on anatomy and physiology has been rearranged and much of the detail placed later in the book to made it less demanding on readers; further coverage has been given to the sounds of the world's languages; and the entire text has been edited to bring it up to date. ------- 目录 王宗炎序 导读 Figures Tables Preface to the Second Edition List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 Phonetics and phonology 1.2 Theory and analysis 1.3 Relationships with other fields 1.4 Outline of this book Exercises 2 Segmental Articulation 2.1 Introduction 2.2 A functional overview of the speech production process 2.3 The organs of speech 2.4 Describing speech sounds 2.5 Airstream mechanisms 2.6 Modes of phonation 2.7 Vocalic sounds 2.8 Duration and glide in vocalic articulations 2.9 Consonantal sounds 2.10 Vocal tract Place 2.11 Tongue position 2.12 Manner of articulation 2.13 Stricture 2.14 Force 2.15 Length 2.16 Voice onset Exercises 3 Units of Speech 4 The Phonemic Organization of Speech 5 The Generative Approach to Phonology 6 The Anatomy and Physiology of Speech Production 7 The Acoustics of Speech Production 8 Speech Perception 9 Prosody 10 Feature Systems 11 The Progress of Phonology Appendix 1:Phonetic Symbols Appendix 2:Features References Index 文库索引

This superb introduction to phonetics, with its accompanying CD, is perfect for anyone who wants to learn about the sounds of languages. Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages. People trill their lips and click their tongues when talking in ways that are amazing to English speakers. Several of these unusual sounds are reproduced on the CD. The book opens with a brief introduction to the main forces working on the sounds of languages. Using basic terms, Ladefoged outlines the acoustic components of speech and demonstrates speech synthesis. Subsequent chapters on computers and speech describe text-to-speech systems, and show how speech recognition systems work. The last part of the book describes the sounds of a wide variety of languages, introducing them to readers largely by means of the CD that accompanies the book, and by reference to the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The contents of the CD are available on Peter Ladefoged's phonetics site, which includes an online version of the CD as well as other useful phonetics links. This is an introductory book on phonetics that will enable readers to go on to read The Sounds of the World's Languages (Blackwell 1996) by Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson, and other more advanced books on phonetics and phonology. With its lucid prose and accompanying CD, it is also a book to be enjoyed in its own right.

Companion website, featuring additional resources such as sound files, can be found here: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/phonetics/ Providing a comprehensive overview of the four primary areas of phonetics, Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception is an ideal guide to the complete study of speech and sound. An accessible but in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics Covers all four areas of phonetics: transcription, production, acoustics, and perception Offers uniquely thorough coverage of related relevant areas, including vocal fold vibration and the working of the ear, creating an engagingly flexible work for instructors Includes chapter-by-chapter exercises, enabling students to put their knowledge into practice Written in a clear and concise style by two of the field’s leading scholars

This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will be a standard work of reference for researchers in phonetics, linguistics and speech science for many years to come. The scope of the book is truly global, with data drawn from nearly 400 languages, many of them investigated at first hand by the authors.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet, widely used for over a century to transcribe the sounds of languages. The Handbook is in three parts: Part I contains an introduction to phonetic description and exemplification of the use of phonetic symbols; Part II consists of twenty-nine "Illustrations" of the application of the International Phonetic Alphabet to a range of languages; and Part III covers speech pathology, computer codings, and the history of the IPA. This is an essential reference work for phoneticians and linguists more generally.

本书是国际著名语音学大师Peter Ladefoged教授撰写的语音学入门教材，重点介绍发音语音学，同时也着重介绍了如何在探讨发音的过程中入声学语音学和感知语音学方面的考察。本书自1975年初版面世以来，已历经4个版次的修订，成为使用最广、影响最大的语音学基础教材之一，此次出版的即为2006年最新修订版。书中的讲解力求简明扼要、直截了当，非常适合初学者学习。 本书配有一张多媒体光盘，里面有使用本书所需的各种图表、录音、录像以及国际音标表中所有符号的发音。光盘里还包括本书的姊妹篇Vowelsand Consonants一书的光盘内容，可供使用时参考。 ------- 目录 Preface PART I INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS CHAPTER I　ARTICULATION AND ACOUSTICS Speech Production Sound Waves 5 Places of Articulatory Gestures The Oro-Nasal Process Manners of Articulation The Waveforms of Consonants The Articulation of Vowel Sounds The Sounds of Vowels Suprasegmentals Exercises CHAPTER 2　PHONOLOGY AND PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION The Transcription of Consonants The Transcription of Vowels Consonant and Vowel Charts Phonology Exercises Performance Exercises PART II: ENGLISH PHONETICS CHAPTER 3　THE CONSONANTS OF ENGLISH Stop Consonants Fricatives Affricates Nasals Approximants Overlapping Gestures Rules for English Consonant Allophones Diacritics Exercises Performance Exercises CHAPTER 4　ENGLISH VOWELS Transcription and Phonetic Dictionaries Vowel Quality Unstressed Syllables Tense and Lax Vowels Rules for English　Vowel Allophones Exercises Performance Exerses CHAPTER　5　SENGLISH WORDS AND SENTENCES Words in Connected Speech Stress Degrees of Stress Sentence Stress Intonation Target Tones Exercises Performance Exercises PART III GENERAL PHONETICS CHAPTER 6　AIRSTREAM MECHANISMIS AND PHONATION TYPES CHAPTER 7　CONSONANTAL G ESTVERES CHAPTER 8　ACOUSTIC PHONETICR CHAPTER 9　VOWELS AND VOWEL,LIKE AB, TICULATIONS CHAPTER 10　SYLLABLES AND SUPRASEGPIENTAL FEATURES CHAPTER 11　LINGUISTIC PHONETICS Further Reading. Additional Resources Glossary Sources Index