Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of TheHandbook of Phonetic Sciences provides an authoritative accountof the key topics in both theoretical and applied areas of speechcommunication, written by an international team of leading scholarsand practitioners.
Combines new and influential research, along with articulateoverviews of the key topics in theoretical and applied areas ofspeech communication
Accessibly structured into five major sections covering:experimental phonetics; biological perspectives; modelling speechproduction and perception; linguistic phonetics; and speechtechnology
Includes nine entirely new chapters on topics such as phoneticnotation and sociophonetics, speech technology, biologicalperspectives, and prosody
A streamlined and re-oriented structure brings allcontributions up-to-date with the latest research, whilstmaintaining the features that made the first edition so useful
Combines new and influential research, along with articulateoverviews of the key topics in theoretical and applied areas ofspeech communication
Accessibly structured into five major sections covering:experimental phonetics; biological perspectives; modelling speechproduction and perception; linguistic phonetics; and speechtechnology
Includes nine entirely new chapters on topics such as phoneticnotation and sociophonetics, speech technology, biologicalperspectives, and prosody
A streamlined and re-oriented structure brings allcontributions up-to-date with the latest research, whilstmaintaining the features that made the first edition so useful
"In conclusion, the second edition of 'The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences' is an invaluable reference. The clarity of its explanations, its accurate and updated review of theories and methods, and its analysis of both the strengths and weaknesses of each tool at the disposal of researchers will all be of great help to scholars involved in various degrees of speech analysis." (Linguist List, 4 June 2013)