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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
Explores the most current methodologies, measurement tools, and theories in the field
Features chapter-by-chapter exercises and a series of original illustrations which take the mystery out of the anatomy, physiology, and measurement techniques relevant to speech research
Includes a companion website at www.wiley.com/go/articulatoryphonetics with additional exercises for each chapter and new, easy-to-understand images of the vocal tract and of measurement tools/data for articulatory phonetics teaching and research
Password protected instructor’s material includes an answer key for the additional exercises
Author Biography
Bryan Gick is Professor and Director of theInterdisciplinary Speech Research Laboratory at the University ofBritish Columbia, and is a Senior Researcher at HaskinsLaboratories. Dr. Gick s work has been featured on NOVA, NPRMorning Edition, and BBC Radio s NakedScientist . He is the editor of The Oneida Creation Storyas told by Demus Elm and Harvey Antone (with F. Lounsbury,2000). Ian Wilson is Professor and Director of the CLR PhoneticsLab at the University of Aizu. Dr. Wilson was a regular in a3-month English pronunciation television program aired on the NHK World channel. Donald Derrick is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the New ZealandInstitute of Language, Brain and Behaviour in Christchurch, and theMARCS Institute in Sydney.
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