The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonetics (Bloomsbury Companions)

The __Bloomsbury Companion To Phonetics__ is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics. It offers a comprehensive reference resource, giving an overview of key topics and key terms in phonetics. It offers a survey of current research areas and new directions in the field as well as featuring a manageable guide to beginning or developing research. The book gives readers practical guidance for advanced study in the area. The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field, looking at both the core and applied domains of phonetics and speech science. It offers insights into areas as diverse as the acquisition, production and perception of speech, and clinical and forensic phonetics. There is a state of the art exploration of voice and phonation, tone and intonation, phonetic pedagogy, speech technology and phonetic universals. Cover HalfTitle Series Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Introduction 1 Historical Overview of Phonetics Phonetics from Ancient Times up to the IPA 1 The Ancient World 2 The Middle Ages 3 Renaissance Europe 4 Seventeenth Century 5 Eighteenth Century 6 Nineteenth Century Historical Chapter IPA to Modern Period 2 Research Methods in Speech Perception 1 Introduction 2 Participants 3 Stimuli 4 Reduction of Stimulus Information 5 Procedures 6 Results – Dependent Variables 7 Conclusion 3 Research Methods in Speech Production 1 Introduction 2 An Overview of Speech Production Techniques 3 Some General Concerns for Speech Production Studies 4 Research Methods in Phonetic Fieldwork 1 Introduction 2 Planning 3 Preparation 4 Starting Work 5 Basic Equipment 6 Audio Recording 7 Audiovisual Recording 8 Speech Material 9 Static Palatography 10 Electropalatography (EPG) 11 Other Data Acquisition Techniques 12 Perceptual Experiments 13 Epilogue 5 Research Methods in Speech Acoustics 1 Introduction 2 Making Measurements 3 Conclusion 6 Speech Perception Development 1 Introduction 2 In the Beginning . . . 3 Infants’ Early Auditory Processing Abilities 4 Infants’ Sensitivity to Different Aspects of Speech in the First Few Months of Life 5 At what Age are Infants Able to Extract Regularities from the Speech Stream? 6 What Learning Mechanisms might Infants be Using? 7 What do we Know about the Role of the Input? 8 Moving onto Linking Sound Patterns to Meanings. How does this Skill Interact with Phonetic Perception? 9 Future Directions 7 Voice and Phonation 1 Initiation Mechanisms 2 Basic States of the Larynx 3 More Complex Phonation Types 4 The Relationship of Initiation to Phonation 5 Appendix: Examples 8 Prosody 1 Introduction 2 Acoustic Parameters of Prosody 3 Prosodic Subsystems: Stress, Rhythm and Intonation 4 Conclusion 9 Phonetic Universals and Phonetic Variation 1 Introduction 2 The Nature of Phonetic Universals 3 Crosslinguistic Comparisons 4 Investigating Phonetic Universals 5 Sources of Phonetic Variation 6 Discussion 10 Spontaneous Speech 1 Introduction 2 Eliciting Spontaneous Speech and Spontaneous Speech Databases 3 Phonetic Patterns of Spontaneous Speech 4 Non-linear Patterns 5 Explaining the Patterns 6 Phonetic Organization of Conversation 7 Conclusion 11 Clinical Phonetics 1 Introduction 2 Assessment 3 Analysis Types 4 Diagnosis 5 Categorizing Disordered Speech 6 Intervention 12 Forensic Speech Science 1 Introduction 2 Speech Content Analysis 3 Speaker Profiling 4 Forensic Speaker Comparison 5 Methods of Analysis 6 Considering Findings and Expressing Conclusions 7 Conclusion 13 Phonetic Pedagogy 1 Introduction 2 Kinds of Phonetic Pedagogy 2.1 The Teaching of Phonetics – Pure Elective 3 Relation to General Pedagogical Theory 14 An Introduction to Phonetic Technology 1 Applications 2 Transformations 3 System Examples 4 Conclusions 15 New Directions in Speech Perception 1 Introduction 2 Information and Variability in the Speech Signal 3 Processes, Representations and Pathways 4 Conclusion 16 New Directions in Speech Production 1 Introduction 2 Coarticulation 3 Assimilation 4 Consonant Clusters 5 Conclusions Bibliography Index "The Bloomsbury Companion To Phonetics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics. It offers a comprehensive reference resource, giving an overview of key topics and key terms in phonetics. It offers a survey of current research areas and new directions in the field as well as featuring a manageable guide to beginning or developing research. The book gives readers practical guidance for advanced study in the area. The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field, looking at both the core and applied domains of phonetics and speech science. It offers insights into areas as diverse as the acquisition, production and perception of speech, and clinical and forensic phonetics. There is a state of the art exploration of voice and phonation, tone and intonation, phonetic pedagogy, speech technology and phonetic universals."--Bloomsbury Publishing The Continuum Companion to Phonology offers the definitive guide to a key area of linguistic study. It covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field. Each companion offers a comprehensive reference resource giving an overview of key topics, research areas, new directions and a manageable guide to beginning or developing research in the field. It offers a survey of current research and also gives more practical guidance on advanced study and research in the area. The book includes coverage of key research areas in phonology, including the interaction of p