Vowels and Consonants

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By Peter Ladefoged and Sandra Ferrari Disner

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Vowels and Consonants offers an accessible introduction to phonetics, updated for its third edition. It explores how languages use a vast array of sounds, many unfamiliar to speakers of common languages. The book covers the acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual aspects of speech, with explanations of speech synthesis and recognition technologies. Accompanying website resources with sound files enhance the learning experience.
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Ideal for students, educators, and anyone interested in linguistics, phonetics, or speech technology.

This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition and now includes an accompanying website. While maintaining Peter Ladefoged's expert writing and knowledge of sounds in language, Sandy Disner brings essential updates on topics such as speech technology.

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This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as speech technology.

Vowels and Consonants describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages. It is written by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, Sandra Ferrari Disner.

The book includes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and additional updates throughout. It explores the acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual components of speech, demonstrates speech synthesis, and explains how speech recognition systems work.

The book is supported by an accompanying website at www.vowelsandconsonants3e.com featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

A linguist praises the book as essential for teachers and learners, highlighting its ability to improve understanding of speech production and spoken English competence. It is regarded as a 'must have' that enriches individuals and library collections.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781444334296

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 February 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 3rd edition

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 240

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Peter Ladefoged Sandra Ferrari Disner

About the Author

Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006) was Research Phonetician and Professor of Phonetics Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was Director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory from 1962 to 1991 and was president of the Linguistic Society of America. He is the author of numerous books, including The Sounds of the World's Languages (with I. Maddieson, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), Phonetic Data Analysis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), and A Course in Phonetics, Sixth Edition (with Keith Johnson, 2010). Sandra Ferrari Disner teaches general and forensic linguistics at the University of Southern California. She has over 25 years of experience in speech technology, having developed commercial text-to-speech and speech-recognition systems in five languages, as well as the world's first talking video games.

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