Vowels and Consonants
By Peter Ladefoged.
Description
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 revise...
ISBN(s)
1405124598, 9781405124591
