'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 revised and expanded edition of the classic "Elements of Acoustic Phonetics" provides a concise introduction to basic concepts of acoustics and digital speech processing that are important to linguists, phoneticians, and speech scientists. The second edition includes four new chapters that cover new experimental techniques in acoustic phonetics made possible by the use of computers. Assuming no background in physics or mathematics, Ladefoged explains concepts that must be understood in using modern laboratory techniques for acoustic analysis, including resonances of the vocal tract and the relation of formants to different cavities; digital speech processing and computer storage of sound waves; and Fourier analysis and Linear Predictive Coding, the equations used most frequently in the analysis of speech sounds. Incorporating recent developments in our knowledge of the nature of speech, Ladefoged also updates the original edition's discussion of the basic properties of sound waves; variations in loudness, pitch, and quality of speech sounds; wave analysis; and the hearing and production of speech.