Articulatory Phonetics - Brossura

Gick, Bryan; Wilson, Ian; Derrick, Donald

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ISBN 10: 1405193204 ISBN 13: 9781405193207

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2013

Riassunto

Articulatory Phonetics presents a concise and non-technicalintroduction to the physiological processes involved in producingsounds in human speech.

• Traces the path of the speech production system through to thepoint where simple vocal sounds are produced, covering the nervoussystem, and muscles, respiration, and phonation
• Introduces more complex anatomical concepts of articulatoryphonetics and particular sounds of human speech, including brainanatomy and coarticulation
• Explores the most current methodologies, measurement tools, andtheories in the field
• Features chapter-by-chapter exercises and a series of originalillustrations which take the mystery out of the anatomy,physiology, and measurement techniques relevant to speechresearch
• Includes a companion website atwww.wiley.com/go/articulatoryphonetics with additional exercisesfor each chapter and new, easy-to-understand images of the vocaltract and of measurement tools/data for articulatory phoneticsteaching and research
• Password protected instructor’s material includes ananswer key for the additional exercises

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Recensione:

Life has just become less lonely for Acoustic andAuditory Phonetics.  Gick, Wilson & Derrick have given usa marvelous addition to the classroom, providing an authoritativedescription of speech articulation, an insightful and balancedguide to the theory of cognitive control of speech, and a highlyreadable introduction to the methods used in articulatoryphonetics.  All students of phonetics should study thisbook! – Keith Johnson, University of California,Berkeley

Gick, Wilson, and Derrick offer an engaging,comprehensive introduction to how articulation works and how it isinvestigated in the laboratory.  This textbook fills animportant gap in our training of phoneticians and speechscientists. – Patrice Beddor, University ofMichigan

A rich yet approachable source of phonetic information,this new text is well structured, well designed, and full oforiginal diagrams. – James Scobbie, Queen MargaretUniversity

L'autore:

Bryan Gick is Professor and Director of theInterdisciplinary Speech Research Laboratory at the University ofBritish Columbia, and is a Senior Researcher at HaskinsLaboratories. Dr. Gick’s work has been featured on NOVA, NPRMorning Edition, and BBC Radio’s “NakedScientist”. He is the editor of The Oneida Creation Storyas told by Demus Elm and Harvey Antone (with F. Lounsbury,2000).

Ian Wilson is Professor and Director of the CLR PhoneticsLab at the University of Aizu. Dr. Wilson was a regular in a3-month English pronunciation television program aired on the“NHK World” channel.

Donald Derrick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the New ZealandInstitute of Language, Brain and Behaviour in Christchurch, and theMARCS Institute in Sydney.

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• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1405193204
• ISBN 13: 9781405193207
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 250