Bible Translation: An Introductory Course in Translation Principles - Softcover

Katharine Barnwell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556714297 ISBN 13: 9781556714290

Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications, 2018

Synopsis

This book provides a practical and easy-to-understand introduction to acoustic speech analysis, primarily aimed at those involved in linguistic analysis and description in the field and at those preparing for such fieldwork. It explains commonly used methods for displaying aspects of a speech wave, such as waveform graphs, spectra, spectrograms, fundamental frequency graphs (pitch graphs), and intensity graphs. It illustrates how the results of acoustic analysis can be interpreted and used to improve the objectivity, accuracy and precision of phonetic descriptions of speech sounds. The book assumes basic knowledge of articulatory phonetics. It can be used to teach introductory courses in acoustic phonetics at the undergraduate level.

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About the Author

"Katy" Barnwell has served with SIL International since 1963 in Nigerian and other countries in Africa, and from 1989 to 1999 in the International Translation Department at Dallas. Currently, she is an international translation consultant. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the School of African and Oriental Studies and University College, London, in 1969.

Edition details

• Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Academic Publications
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1556714297
• ISBN 13: 9781556714290
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 268