The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the key topics of the phonetic sciences. Contributions by many of the leading researchers in the field cover both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication.
There are contributions on experimental phonetics, including aerodynamics of speech, speech signal processing, laboratory techniques and acoustic phonetics, as well as discussions of speech technology applications in areas such as automatic recognition of speech and speakers, and speech synthesis. Following are chapters on the biological foundations of speech and hearing, such as brain functions underlying speech, auditory neural processing, and articulatory processes in speech production.
A section on theoretical approaches in phonetic sciences addresses aspects of spoken word recognition, coarticulation, articulatory/acoustic/auditory relationships and laryngeal function. The next section, linguistic phonetics, covers descriptive criteria in general phonetics and the relationship between phonetics and other areas of linguistics, such as phonology. The final selection contains contributions on speech technology, ranging from speech signal processing to speech synthesis.
The volume represents an unparalleled resource to students and specialists in linguistics, phonetics and psychology, speech and language therapists and speech technologists.
The phonetics course is designed for those who, irrespective of their initial level of knowledge, want to understand the English speech and master English pronunciation (so-called BBC variant, which is the norm of speech on the English radio and television). All sections of phonetics have been recorded with the voice of William Shephard, who was a long time coordinator at UCLES.
A student can compare their pronunciation with the model not only using their hearing but also visually seeing the graphical speech representation
This dictionary may be small in stature, but it will be a big help to you if you are learning English. "NTC's Super-Mini English Dictionary" contains a comprehensive word list yet is compact enough to fit in your pocket. You will have access to the spelling, pronunciation, part of speech, meaning, and irregular forms of more than 7,500 of the most common and basic words used in English.
Pragmatics (by George Yule) This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise foundation for further study.
Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy) The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural language? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? Each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals specifically with nonsentential speech. Within the first main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issue of whether nonsentential speech falls within the scope of ellipsis or not; within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. * This book is unique in that it offers the reader; o Papers on the boundary between philosophy and linguistics, o Applications of advanced work in theoretical linguistics to traditional philosophical questions, o It is the only volume of papers ever published on sub-sentential speech, o Major contribution to our understanding of ellipsis in natural language, presently a central topic in syntactic theory. * This book is of interest to professionals and advanced graduate students in the fields of philosophy of language, semantics, and syntax.
