1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics
The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of research, history and techniques in phonetics. With contributions from 41 prominent authors from North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, and including over 130 figures to illustrate key points, this handbook covers all the most important areas in the field, including:
• the history and scope of techniques used, including speech synthesis, vocal tract imaging techniques, and obtaining information on under-researched languages from language archives;
• the physiological bases of speech and hearing, including auditory, articulatory, and neural explanations of hearing, speech, and language processes;
• theories and models of speech perception and production related to the processing of consonants, vowels, prosody, tone, and intonation;
• linguistic phonetics, with discussions of the phonetics-phonology interface, sound change, second language acquisition, sociophonetics, and second language teaching research;
• applications and extensions, including phonetics and gender, clinical phonetics, and forensic phonetics.
The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics will be indispensable reading for students and practitioners in the fields of speech, language, linguistics and hearing sciences.
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Editors’ acknowledgments
Editor’s introduction: A handbook of phonetics
I History, scope, and techniques
- History of speech synthesis
Advances in vocal tract imaging and analysis
- Under-researched languages: Phonetic results from language archives
- The phonetics of voice
- Articulatory phonetics
- Neural bases of speech production
- Phonetics and the auditory system
- Neural bases of auditory and audiovisual speech perception
- The acoustics and perception of North American English vowels
- The phonetic properties of consonants
- Theories and models of speech perception
- Prosody, tone, and intonation
The interface between phonetics and phonology
- The phonetic basis of the origin and spread of sound change
- The phonetics of second language learning and bilingualism
- Innovations in sociophonetics
- Phonetics and second language teaching research
- The phonetics of sex and gender
- New horizons in clinical phonetics
- Vocal tract models in phonetic teaching and research
- Introduction to forensic voice comparison
Brad H. Story
Asterios Toutios, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, & Shrikanth Narayanan
D.W. Whalen & Joyce McDonough
II Physiological basis of speech and hearing
Marc Garellek
Bryan Gick, Murray Schellenbery, Ian Stavness, & Ryan C. Taylor
Jason W. Bohland, Jason A. Tourville & Frank H. Guenther
Matthew Winn & Christian Stilp
Jonathan Peelle
III Theories and models of speech perception and production
James M. Hillenbrand
Marija Tabain
Michael Kiefte & Terrance M. Nearey
Yi Xu
IV Linguistic/perceptual phonetics
John Kingston
Jonathan Harrington, Felicitas Kleber, Ulrich Reubold, Florian Schiel, & Mary Stevens
Charles B. Chang
Erik R. Thomas
Murray J. Munro & Tracey M. Derwing
V Applications and extensions
Benjamin Munson and Molly Babel
William F. Katz
Takayuki Arai
Geoffrey Morrison & Ewald Etzinger
Index
Biography
William F. Katz is Professor for the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.
Peter F. Assmann is Professor for the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.
"This new Handbook, with contributions from leaders in the field, integrates, within a single volume, an historical perspective, the latest in computational and neural modeling of phonetics, and a breadth of applications, including clinical populations and forensic linguistics. Issues of current international social importance are addressed, rendering the volume not only an excellent fundamental resource for students and professionals alike, but an apt reflection of the state-of-the-science of modern-day phonetics."
Shari R. Baum, McGill University, Canada