Jonathan Harrington

Broschiertes Buch

Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora

Beschreibung

An accessible introduction to the phonetic analysis of speech corpora, this workbook-style text provides an extensive set of exercises to help readers develop the necessary skills to design and carry out experiments in speech research.
Offers the first step-by-step treatment of advanced techniques in experimental phonetics using speech corpora and downloadable software, including the R programming language
Introduces methods of analyzing phonetically-labelled speech corpora, with the goal of testing hypotheses that often arise in experimental phonetics and laboratory phonology
Incorporates an extensive set of exercises and answers to reinforce the techniques introduced
Accessibly written with easy-to-follow computer commands and spectrograms of speech
Companion website at www.wiley.com/go/harrington, which includes illustrations, video tutorials, appendices, and downloadable speech corpora for testing purposes.
Discusses techniques in digital speech processing and in structuring and querying annotations from speech corpora
Includes substantial coverage of analysis, including measuring gestural synchronization using EMA, the acoustics of vowels, consonant overlap using EPG, spectral analysis of fricatives and obstruents, and the probabilistic classification of acoustic speech data

Autor

Jonathan Harrington is Professor of the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. His recent research has primarily focused on modeling the acoustic and perceptual mechanisms of sound change. He is co-editor of Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques (with Marija Tabain, 2006) and Techniques in Speech Acoustics (with Steve Cassidy, 1999).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 200mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 765g
• ISBN-13: 9781405199575
• ISBN-10: 1405199571
• Artikelnr.: 28165282

Rezensionen

"The book undoubtedly succeeds entirely in its goal to provide anaccessible and effective practical introduction to using Emu speechdatabase system and Emu-R functions to analyze phonetic data. It iswritten in a clear and accessible language and the topics areintroduced in a coherent and easy to follow manner with thecomplexity of the material gradually increasing from the beginningtowards the end of the book. Even rather complicated concepts aremade easy to understand with an exceptional use of analogy and acommendable restraint from going into too many mathematical andtechnical details...this is a well-written, well-structured,easy-to-follow workbook which boasts an excellent set of practicalexercises and demonstrations and covers a wide range of techniques.Overall, those readers who have a basic background in phonetics andstatistics and are prepared to work their way carefully throughthis book will be greatly rewarded with its informativeness andeffectiveness." (LINGUIST List, January 2011)