Vowels and Consonants - Softcover

Ladefoged, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405124598 ISBN 13: 9781405124591

Verlag: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004

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This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics is now available in a fully updated second edition. Peter Ladefoged describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well--known languages. Important topics covered in Vowels and Consonants include: aeo The main forces operating on the sounds of languages aeo The acoustic components of speech and speech synthesis aeo Computers and Text--To--Speech systems and speech recognition systems aeo Descriptions of the sounds of a wide variety of languages that are reproduced on the accompanying CD. This revised edition includes a new chapter on how we listen to speech and the greatly expanded CD now contains data on 100 languages to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life.

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Peter Ladefoged, UCLA Research Phonetician and Professor of Phonetics Emeritus, was Director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory from 1962 to 1991. He is author of numerous books, including A Course in Phonetics (fourth edition, 2001) and Phonetic Data Analysis (Blackwell, 2004).

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This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics is now available in a fully updated second edition. Peter Ladefoged describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages.

Important topics covered in Vowels and Consonants include:

• The main forces operating on the sounds of languages
  
• The acoustic components of speech and speech synthesis
  
• Computers and Text-To-Speech systems and speech recognition systems
  
• Descriptions of the sounds of a wide variety of languages that are reproduced on the accompanying CD.

This revised edition includes a new chapter on how we listen to speech and the greatly expanded CD now contains data on 100 languages to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1405124598
• ISBN 13: 9781405124591
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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