This book is concerned with articulatory phonetics, meaning that the main purpose of this book is to teach the reader how to recognize, record, and reproduce the sounds of any language.
Articulatory Phonetics presents a concise and non-technical introduction to the physiological processes involved in producing sounds in human speech. Traces the path of the speech production system through to the point where simple vocal sounds are produced, covering the nervous system, and muscles, respiration, and phonation. Introduces more complex anatomical concepts of articulatory phonetics and particular sounds of human speech, including brain anatomy and coarticulation.
The Manual of Articulatory Phonetics has been designed for courses in practical phonetics for beginning students. The point of view behind this book is that general phonetics is a primary skill of great importance to language students who want to acquire a fluent and accurate spoken mastery of a language in adulthood, as well as to linguists who need it as a basic tool of their profession.
Articulatory Phonetics: Tools for Analyzing the World's Languages, 4th Edition
This textbook is the fourth edition of the revision and expansion of A Manual for Articulatory Phonetics, compiled by Rick Floyd in 1986. It includes many other people's materials from articulatory phonetics courses as taught for over sixty years in the training schools of SIL International. It also includes much information from sources outside of SIL.
