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hodder.co.uk>There was a mistake in the most recent announcement from Arnold Publishers. The entire corrected text appears below. Phonetics: The Science of Speech, by Martin J Ball, School of Behavioural and Communication Studies, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK and Joan Rahilly, School of English, Queen's University of Belfast, UK July 1999 c.256pp PB 0 340 70010 6 c.\15614.99 HB 0 340 70009 2 c.\15640.00/$ Arnold Publishers (American edition is published in association with OUP) In their comprehensive new introduction to phonetics, Ball and Rahilly offer a detailed explanation of the process of speech production, from the anatomical initiation of sounds and their modification in the larynx, through to the final articulation of vowels and consonants in the oral and nasal tracts. This textbook is one of the few to give a balanced account of segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech, showing clearly that the communication chain is incomplete without accurate production of both individual speech sounds (segmental features) and aspects such as stress and intonation (suprasegmental features). Throughout the book the authors provide advice on transcription, primarily using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Students are expertly guided from basic attempts to record speech sounds on paper, to more refined accounts of phonetic detail in speech. The authors go on to explain acoustic phonetics in a manner accessible both to new students in phonetics, and to those who wish to advance their knowledge of key pursuits in the area, including the sound spectrograph. They describe how speech waves can be measured, as well as considering how they are heard and decoded by listeners, discussing both physiological and neurological aspects of hearing and examining the methods of psychoacoustic experimentation. A range of instrumentation for studying speech production is also presented. Key Features: One of the few balanced and concise introduction to phonetics available Up-to-date and accessible Includes tables, diagrams and illustrations Provides examples from a wide range of the world's languages Contents: The anatomy and physiology of speech / Initiation of speech / Speech articulation / Segments of speech - obstruent consonants / Segments of speech - sonorant consonants and vowels / Suprasegments of speech / Multiple articulations, coarticulation, and the parameters of speech / Principles and methods of phonetic transcription / Acoustic characteristics of speech / The perception of speech / Perceptual phonetics / Instrumental phonetics. Readership: 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students of linguistics. Available on inspection for lecturers (quote LLB) Tel: +44 (0) 171 873 6355 Fax: +44 (0) 171 873 6325 E-mail: milly.neateMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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