Keith Johnson

Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Fully revised and expanded, the third edition of Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics maintains a balance of accessibility and scholarly rigor to provide students with a complete introduction to the physics of speech. * Newly updated to reflect the latest advances in the field * Features a balanced and student-friendly approach to speech, with engaging side-bars on related topics * Includes suggested readings and exercises designed to review and expand upon the material in each chapter, complete with selected answers * Presents a new chapter on speech perception that addresses theoretical issues as well as practical concerns

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444343076
• Artikelnr.: 38308348

Autorenporträt

Keith Johnson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of Quantitative Methods in Linguistics, and the 6th edition of Peter Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 Part I Fundamentals 5 1 Basic Acoustics
and Acoustic Filters 7 1.1 The Sensation of Sound 7 1.2 The Propagation of
Sound 8 1.3 Types of Sounds 11 1.3.1 Simple periodic waves 11 1.3.2 Complex
periodic waves 12 1.3.3 Aperiodic waves 17 1.4 Acoustic Filters 19
Recommended Reading 22 Exercises 23 2 The Acoustic Theory of Speech
Production: Deriving Schwa 25 2.1 Voicing 25 2.2 Voicing Quanta 28 2.3
Vocal Tract Filtering 30 2.4 Pendulums, Standing Waves, and Vowel Formants
32 2.5 Discovering Nodes and Antinodes in an Acoustic Tube 45 Recommended
Reading 47 Exercises 48 3 Digital Signal Processing 49 3.1 Continuous
versus Discrete Signals 49 3.2 Analog-to-Digital Conversion 50 3.2.1
Sampling 51 3.2.2 Quantization 55 3.3 Signal Analysis Methods 59 3.3.1 RMS
amplitude 59 3.3.2 Fast Fourier transform (FFT) 60 3.3.3 Auto-correlation
pitch tracking 64 3.3.4 Digital filters 68 3.3.5 Linear predictive coding
(LPC) 71 3.3.6 Spectra and spectrograms 77 Recommended Reading 79 Exercises
80 4 Basic Audition 82 4.1 Anatomy of the Peripheral Auditory System 82 4.2
The Auditory Sensation of Loudness 83 4.3 Frequency Response of the
Auditory System 88 4.4 Saturation and Masking 90 4.5 Auditory
Representations 93 Rcommended Reading 97 Exercises 98 5 Speech Perception
100 5.1 Auditory Ability Shapes Speech Perception 101 5.2 Phonetic
Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception 104 5.2.1 Categorical perception 104
5.2.2 Phonetic coherence 109 5.3 Linguistic Knowledge Shapes Speech
Perception 112 5.4 Perceptual Similarity 115 5.4.1 Maps from distances 116
5.4.2 The perceptual map of fricatives 119 Recommended Reading 124
Exercises 126 Part II Speech Analysis 129 6 Vowels 131 6.1 Tube Models of
Vowel Production 131 6.2 Perturbation Theory 137 6.3 "Preferred" Vowels -
Quantal Theory and Adaptive Dispersion 141 6.4 Vowel Formants and the
Acoustic Vowel Space 142 6.5 Auditory and Acoustic Representations of
Vowels 144 6.6 Cross-linguistic Vowel Perception 146 Recommended Reading
149 Exercises 150 7 Fricatives 152 7.1 Turbulence 152 7.2 Place of
Articulation in Fricatives 157 7.3 Quantal Theory and Fricatives 159 7.4
Fricative Auditory Spectra 162 7.5 Dimensions of Fricative Perception 165
Recommended Reading 166 Exercises 167 8 Stops and Affricates 169 8.1 Source
Functions For Stops and Affricates 170 8.1.1 Phonation types 170 8.1.2
Sound sources in stops and affricates 172 8.2 Vocal Tract Filter Functions
in Stops 176 8.3 Affricates 179 8.4 Auditory Properties of Stops 180 8.5
Stop Perception in Different Vowel Contexts 182 Recommended Reading 183
Exercises 184 9 Nasals and Laterals 185 9.1 Bandwidth 185 9.2 Nasal Stops
187 9.3 Laterals 196 9.4 Nasalization 198 9.5 Nasal Consonant Perception
202 Recommended Reading 204 Exercises 205 References 206 Answers to
Selected Short-answer Questions 212 Index 218

Rezensionen

"Looking to offer a balanced, student-friendly approach to speech, with lively sidebars on related topics, this updated edition is intended to reflect the latest advances in the field." (Times Higher Education Supplement {Texbook Guide}, 3 November 2011)