Elements of Acoustic Phonetics - Hardcover

Ladefoged, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226467635 ISBN 13: 9780226467634

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1995

Synopsis

This revised and expanded edition of a classic textbook provides a concise introduction to basic concepts of acoustics and digital speech processing that are important to linguists, phoneticians, and speech scientists. The second edition includes four new chapters that cover new experimental techniques in acoustic phonetics made possible by the use of computers. Assuming no background in physics or mathematics, Ladefoged explains concepts that must be understood in using modern laboratory techniques for acoustic analysis, including resonances of the vocal tract and the relation of formants to different cavities; digital speech processing and computer storage of sound waves; and Fourier analysis and Linear Predictive Coding, the equations used most frequently in the analysis of speech sounds. Incorporating recent developments in our knowledge of the nature of speech, Ladefoged also updates the original edition's discussion of the basic properties of sound waves; variations in loudness, pitch, and quality of speech sounds; wave analysis; and the hearing and production of speech.

Like its predecessor, this edition of Elements of Acoustic Phonetics will serve as an invaluable textbook and reference for students and practitioners of linguistics and speech science, and for anyone who wants to understand the physics of speech.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0226467635
• ISBN 13: 9780226467634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224