The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics/ edited by William F. Katz and Peter F. Assmann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History of speech synthesis / Brad Story -- Imaging and vocal tract development / Asterios Toutios, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, & Shrikanth Narayanan -- Under-researched languages: phonetic results from language archives / D.W. Whalen & Joyce McDonough -- The phonetics of voice / Marc Garellek -- Articulatory phonetics / Bryan Gick, Murray Schellenbery, Ian Stavness, & Ryan C. Taylor -- Neural bases of speech production / Jason W. Bohland, Jason A. Tourville & Frank H. Guenther -- Phonetics and the auditory system / Matthew Winn & Christian Stilp -- Neural bases of auditory and audiovisual speech perception / Jonathan Peelle -- Theories, models of speech perception and production -- The acoustics and perception of North American English vowels / James Hillenbrand -- Phonetic properties of the consonants / Marija Tabain -- Theories and models of speech perception / Michael Kiefte & Terrance Nearey -- Prosody, tone and intonation / Yi Xu -- Phonetics-phonology interface / John Kingston -- The phonetic basis of the origin and spread of sound change / Jonathan Harrington, Felicitas leber, Ulrich Reubold, Florian Schiel, & Mary Stevens -- Phonetics of second language acquisition / Charles B. Chang -- Innovations in sociophonetics / Erik D. Thomas -- Phonetics and second language teaching research / Murray Munro & Tracey Derwing -- Phonetics and gender / Benjamin Munson and Molly Babel -- New horizons in clinical phonetics / William F. Katz -- Vocal tract models in phonetic teaching and research / Takayuki Arai -- Forensic phonetics / Geoffrey Morrison & Ewald Etzinger.

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"-- |c