16.2455, Books: Phonetics: Ladefoged

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Date: 17-Aug-2005
From: Matthew Glidden < blackwellnews at bos.blackwellpublishing.net >
Subject: Vowels and Consonants, Second Ed: Ladefoged 

	
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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:02:46
From: Matthew Glidden < blackwellnews at bos.blackwellpublishing.net >
Subject: Vowels and Consonants, Second Ed: Ladefoged 
 



Title: Vowels and Consonants 
Subtitle: Second Edition 
Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
	   http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
	

Book URL: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/1405124598 


Author: Peter Ladefoged, University of California, Los Angeles

Hardback: ISBN: 140512458X Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1405124598 Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 39.95


Abstract:

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 a hundred languages to
reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life.

"Only Peter Ladefoged, the world's leading phonetician, could produce a
work like this: an authoritative and thorough introduction to phonetics
written in a style that can be understood by a reader with no prior
background in linguistics"
-- John Ohala, University of California, Berkeley 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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