This volume provides a complete introduction to the study of phonetics for beginning students. All the main areas within phonetic science are covered in a lively and accessible way - speech production, speech acoustics, and speech perception; segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech; methods of phonetic transcription; and there is an introduction to modern techniques of speech imaging and modelling.
Author Biography
Martin J. Ball, Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Joan Rahilly, School of Englishm Queen's University of Belfast, UK
