The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of  The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences  provides an authoritative account of the key topics in both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication, written by an international team of scholars and practitioners.  The  Handbook  is accessibly structured into five major sections covering: experimental phonetics; biological perspectives; modelling speech production and perception; linguistic phonetics; and speech technology. These sections have been reconceived and re–oriented to create a more streamlined and user–friendly reference tool, whilst keeping the essential features that made the first edition so comprehensive. All contributions have been revised in order to bring them up–to–date with the latest research, and nine entirely new chapters have been added on topics including phonetic notation and sociophonetics, speech technology, and biological perspectives, along with an expanded section on prosody. This new edition is an unparalleled resource for advanced students and specialists in the field.

List of contributors ix Preface to the Second Edition xii Introduction 1 Part I Experimental Phonetics 7 1 Laboratory Techniques for Investigating Speech Articulation 9 Maureen Stone 2 The Aerodynamics of Speech 39 Christine H. Shadle 3 Acoustic Phonetics 81 Jonathan Harrington 4 Investigating the Physiology of Laryngeal Structures 130 Hajime Hirose Part II Biological Perspectives 153 5 Organic Variation of the Vocal Apparatus 155 Janet Mackenzie Beck 6 Brain Mechanisms Underlying Speech Motor Control 202 Hermann Ackermann and Wolfram Ziegler 7 Development of Neural Control of Orofacial Movements for Speech 251 Anne Smith Part III Modeling Speech Production and Perception 297 8 Speech Acquisition 299 Barbara L. Davis 9 Coarticulation and Connected Speech Processes 316 Edda Farnetani and Daniel Recasens 10 Theories and Models of Speech Production 353 Anders Löfqvist 11 Voice Source Variation and Its Communicative Functions 378 Christer Gobl and Ailbhe Ní Chasaide 12 Articulatory–Acoustic Relations as the Basis of Distinctive Contrasts 424 Kenneth N. Stevens and Helen M. Hanson 13 Aspects of Auditory Processing Related to Speech Perception 454 Brian C. J. Moore 14 Cognitive Processes in Speech Perception 489 James M. McQueen and Anne Cutler Part IV Linguistic Phonetics 521 15 The Prosody of Speech: Timing and Rhythm 523 Janet Fletcher 16 Tone and Intonation 603 Mary E. Beckman and Jennifer J. Venditti 17 The Relation between Phonetics and Phonology 653 John J. Ohala 18 Phonetic Notation 678 John H. Esling 19 Sociophonetics 703 Paul Foulkes, James M. Scobbie, and Dominic Watt Part V Speech Technology 755 20 An Introduction to Signal Processing for Speech 757 Daniel P. W. Ellis 21 Speech Synthesis 781 Rolf Carlson and Björn Granström 22 Automatic Speech Recognition 804 Steve Renals and Simon King Index 839

William J. Hardcastle  is Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. He is the author of  Physiology of Speech Production  (1976) and  Disorders of Fluency and their Effects on Communication  (with P. Dalton, 1989). John Laver  is Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His publications include  The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality  (1980),  Principles of Phonetics  (1994), and  The Gift of Speech  (1996). Fiona E. Gibbon  is Head of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork in Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She is co–editor of  Vowel Disorders  (2002).

“In conclusion, the second edition of ‘The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences’ is an invaluable reference. The clarity of its explanations, its accurate and updated review of theories and methods, and its analysis of both the strengths and weaknesses of each tool at the disposal of researchers will all be of great help to scholars involved in various degrees of speech analysis."  ( Linguist List , 4 June 2013)