The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics: (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics)

The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compilation of research, history and techniques in phonetics. With contributions from 41 prominent authors from North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, and including over 130 figures to illustrate key points, this handbook covers all the most important areas in the field, including:

• the history and scope of techniques used, including speech synthesis, vocal tract imaging techniques, and obtaining information on under-researched languages from language archives;

• the physiological bases of speech and hearing, including auditory, articulatory, and neural explanations of hearing, speech, and language processes;

• theories and models of speech perception and production related to the processing of consonants, vowels, prosody, tone, and intonation;

• linguistic phonetics, with discussions of the phonetics-phonology interface, sound change, second language acquisition, sociophonetics, and second language teaching research;

• applications and extensions, including phonetics and gender, clinical phonetics, and forensic phonetics.

The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics will be indispensable reading for students and practitioners in the fields of speech, language, linguistics and hearing sciences.

List of illustrations

List of abbreviations

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Editors’ acknowledgments

Editor’s introduction: A handbook of phonetics

I History, scope, and techniques

1. 1. 2. History of speech synthesis

      3. Brad H. Story

      4. Advances in vocal tract imaging and analysis

      5. Asterios Toutios, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, & Shrikanth Narayanan

      6. Under-researched languages: Phonetic results from language archives

      7. D.W. Whalen & Joyce McDonough

         II Physiological basis of speech and hearing

      8. The phonetics of voice

      9. Marc Garellek

      10. Articulatory phonetics

      11. Bryan Gick, Murray Schellenbery, Ian Stavness, & Ryan C. Taylor

      12. Neural bases of speech production

      13. Jason W. Bohland, Jason A. Tourville & Frank H. Guenther

      14. Phonetics and the auditory system

      15. Matthew Winn & Christian Stilp

      16. Neural bases of auditory and audiovisual speech perception

      17. Jonathan Peelle

          III Theories and models of speech perception and production

      18. The acoustics and perception of North American English vowels

      19. James M. Hillenbrand

      20. The phonetic properties of consonants

      21. Marija Tabain

      22. Theories and models of speech perception

      23. Michael Kiefte & Terrance M. Nearey

      24. Prosody, tone, and intonation

      25. Yi Xu

          IV Linguistic/perceptual phonetics

      26. The interface between phonetics and phonology

      27. John Kingston

      28. The phonetic basis of the origin and spread of sound change

      29. Jonathan Harrington, Felicitas Kleber, Ulrich Reubold, Florian Schiel, & Mary Stevens

      30. The phonetics of second language learning and bilingualism

      31. Charles B. Chang

      32. Innovations in sociophonetics

      33. Erik R. Thomas

      34. Phonetics and second language teaching research

      35. Murray J. Munro & Tracey M. Derwing

          V Applications and extensions

      36. The phonetics of sex and gender

      37. Benjamin Munson and Molly Babel

      38. New horizons in clinical phonetics

      39. William F. Katz

      40. Vocal tract models in phonetic teaching and research

      41. Takayuki Arai

      42. Introduction to forensic voice comparison

Geoffrey Morrison & Ewald Etzinger

Index

William F. Katz is Professor for the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.

Peter F. Assmann is Professor for the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.A.

"This new Handbook, with contributions from leaders in the field, integrates, within a single volume, an historical perspective, the latest in computational and neural modeling of phonetics, and a breadth of applications, including clinical populations and forensic linguistics. Issues of current international social importance are addressed, rendering the volume not only an excellent fundamental resource for students and professionals alike, but an apt reflection of the state-of-the-science of modern-day phonetics."

Shari R. Baum, McGill University, Canada