Peter Ladefoged

Phonetic Data Analysis

An Introduction to Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques

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Produktbeschreibung

Describing how people talk requires recording and analyzing phonetic data. This is true for researchers investigating the variant pronunciations of street names in Los Angeles, missionaries translating the Bible into a little-known tongue, and scholars obtaining data from a carefully controlled group in a laboratory experiment. Phonetic Data Analysis examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental phonetics, most of them requiring little more than a tape recorder, a video camera, and a computer. This book enables readers to work with a speaker in a classroom setting or to go out into the field and make their own discoveries about how the sounds of a language are made. Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, introduces the experimental phonetic techniques for describing the major phonetic characteristics of any language. Throughout the book there are also comments, written in a more anecdotal fashion, on Ladefoged's own fieldwork.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 333g
• ISBN-13: 9780631232704
• ISBN-10: 0631232702
• Artikelnr.: 12625118

Autorenporträt

Peter Ladefoged, UCLA Research Phonetician and Professor of Phonetics Emeritus, was Director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory from 1962 to 1991. His numerous books include Vowels and Consonants (Blackwell, 2001), Sounds of the World's Languages (with Ian Maddieson, Blackwell, 1996), and A Course in Phonetics (fourth edition, 2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

1. Recording The Sounds of A Language.

2. Finding The Places of Articulation.

3. Aerodynamic Investigations.

4. Pitch, Loudness and Length.

6. Acoustic Analysis of Consonants.

7. Acoustic Analysis of Phonation Types.

8. Coda.

Index

Rezensionen

"This is a wonderful book - one we have all been waiting for,perhaps without knowing it, and one that will make us wonder how weever did without it. I look forward to recommending it to anyoneundertaking an instrumental phonetic investigation." NinaGrønnum, University of Copenhagen

"Phonetic Data Analysis is one of the most usefullinguistics books written in the last 25 years. With his trademarkclarity of thought and expression, Peter Ladefoged has written abook that is sure to be a classic. Every field linguist should owna copy of this book. I plan to carry it with me and follow itssuggestions in all my future field research in the Amazon." DanEverett, University of Manchester

"Peter Ladefoged is widely acknowledged as the world's leadingphonetician. I warmly recommend this unique and remarkable new bookto students and professionals interested in phonetic fieldwork orexperimental phonetics. It is deeply practical and very easy tounderstand; it is also full of illuminating personal experiencefrom a lifetime of investigating hundreds of languages in everyinhabited continent." John Laver, Queen Margaret UniversityCollege, Edinburgh

"This is a very useful and personal book. Peter Ladefoged bringsus along for a phonetic field trip where serious research is alwaysinterspersed with the joy of getting to know one another. This bookwill show you how to make your own palatography mirrors (ask amirror-maker for help!) and how doing phonetics really well canmake for a fascinating life." Keith Johnson, Ohio StateUniversity