Vowels and Consonants
Author | : Peter Ladefoged |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2005-01-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 140512458X |
ISBN-13 | : 9781405124584 |
Rating | : 4/5 (584 Downloads) |
Download or read book Vowels and Consonants written by Peter Ladefoged and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2005-01-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics is now available in a fully updated second edition. Peter Ladefoged describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages. Important topics covered in Vowels and Consonants include: * The main forces operating on the sounds of languages * The acoustic components of speech and speech synthesis * Computers and Text-To-Speech systems and speech recognition systems * Descriptions of the sounds of a wide variety of languages that are reproduced on the accompanying CD. This revised edition includes a new chapter on how we listen to speech and the greatly expanded CD now contains data on 100 languages to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life.