Gick / Wilson / Derrick Articulatory Phonetics

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-43803-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Articulatory Phonetics presents a concise and non-technicalintroduction to the physiological processes involved in producingsounds in human speech.
* Traces the path of the speech production system through to thepoint where simple vocal sounds are produced, covering the nervoussystem, and muscles, respiration, and phonation
* Introduces more complex anatomical concepts of articulatoryphonetics and particular sounds of human speech, including brainanatomy and coarticulation
* Explores the most current methodologies, measurement tools, andtheories in the field
* Features chapter-by-chapter exercises and a series of originalillustrations which take the mystery out of the anatomy,physiology, and measurement techniques relevant to speechresearch
* Includes a companion website atwww.wiley.com/go/articulatoryphonetics with additional exercisesfor each chapter and new, easy-to-understand images of the vocaltract and of measurement tools/data for articulatory phoneticsteaching and research
* Password protected instructor's material includes ananswer key for the additional exercises

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gick, Bryan

Wilson, Ian

Derrick, Donald

Über Autor(innen)

Bryan Gick is Professor and Director of theInterdisciplinary Speech Research Laboratory at the University ofBritish Columbia, and is a Senior Researcher at HaskinsLaboratories. Dr. Gick's work has been featured on NOVA, NPRMorning Edition, and BBC Radio's "NakedScientist". He is the editor of The Oneida Creation Storyas told by Demus Elm and Harvey Antone (with F. Lounsbury,2000).
Ian Wilson is Professor and Director of the CLR PhoneticsLab at the University of Aizu. Dr. Wilson was a regular in a3-month English pronunciation television program aired on the"NHK World" channel.
Donald Derrick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the New ZealandInstitute of Language, Brain and Behaviour in Christchurch, and theMARCS Institute in Sydney.