Phonetics: The Science of Speech Production

Contents: Preface. 1. Symbols. 2. The phone and phoneme. 3. Phonetics basics. 4. Principles of articulatory phonetics. 5. Manner of articulation. 6. Physiology of speech. 7. The mechanism of speech. 8. Description of sounds. 9. Sounds and their occurrence. Glossary to pronunciation terms. Bibliography.

"This book provides chapters on the relationship of phonetics to the study of language including dialectal variation, writing systems, articulatory phonetics for vowels and consonants, speech dynamics, suprasegmentals, phonemics and phonotactics, anatomy and physiology of speech, and speech acoustics and perception. Extensive discussions in phonetic transcription are provided. An excellent introductory text, particularly when anatomy must be combined with phonetics. This is designed as a base book on phonetics and the sequence of this book runs in a reader friendly manner." (jacket)