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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. Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages Written by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, Sandra Ferrari Disner Includes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and additional updates throughout the book Explores the acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual components of speech, demonstrates speech synthesis, and explains how speech recognition systems work 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 lifeProduct Identifiers
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons AND Sons LTD
ISBN-139781444334296
eBay Product ID (ePID)111485369
Product Key Features
Number of Pages230 Pages
Publication NameVowels and Consonants
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEngineering & Technology
Publication Year2012
TypeStudy Guide
AuthorPeter Ladefoged, Sandra Ferrari Disner
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height244 mm
Item Weight402 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorSandra Ferrari Disner, Peter Ladefoged