Description
Book SynopsisThe Bloomsbury Companion To Phonetics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource.
It gives an overview of key areas in phonetics. It offers a survey of current research areas and new directions in the field as well as featuring a manageable guide to beginning or developing research. The book gives readers practical guidance for study in the area.
The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field, looking at both the core and applied domains of phonetics and speech science. It offers insights into areas as diverse as the acquisition, production and perception of speech, and clinical and forensic phonetics. There is a state of the art exploration of voice and phonation, tone and intonation, phonetic pedagogy, speech technology and phonetic universals.
Trade ReviewTitles in the ‘Bloomsbury Companions’ series are intended to bridge the gap between textbooks and the primary literature. The present volume occupies this niche admirably. Initial chapters provide practical advice on research methods, with guidance on factors that have been shown to confound results; the section on phonetic fieldwork in particular shares direct experience, and could be useful to any linguist who ventures beyond the lab. Successive chapters deal with such broad research areas as prosody or universals, and applications in clinical work, forensics, and technology. The volume concludes with suggestions for new research directions. Each contribution is brief – typically about 15 pages – and highly structured, synthesizing current literature and placing it in historical context. Contributors represent a range of countries including Australia, Canada, and Germany; there is a slight bias toward the UK in the applied chapters. Knowledge of phonetic concepts and terminaology is assumed. The book is likely to be of particular use to beginning graduate students, to contextualize theory and situate their research within ongoing programs of inquiry, or to experienced linguists who wish to review the specialized subfields of phonetics.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and researchers. -- J. Adlington, McMaster University * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsIntroduction,
Rachael-Anne Knight and Mark J. Jones 1 Historical overview of phonetics,
Barry Heselwood, Zeki Majeed Hassan, and Mark J. Jones 2 Research methods in speech perception,
Rachael-Anne Knight and Sarah Hawkins 3 Research methods in speech production,
Marija Tabain 4 Research methods in phonetic fieldwork,
Andrew Butcher 5 Research methods in speech acoustics,
Dominic Watt 6 Speech perception development,
Valerie Hazan 7 Voice and phonation,
John Esling 8 Prosody,
Lluisa Astruc 9 Phonetic universals and phonetic variation,
Mark J. Jones 10 Spontaneous speech,
Adrian P. Simpson 11 Clinical phonetics,
Tom Starr-Marshall, Susanna Martin, and Rachael-Anne Knight 12 Forensic speech science,
Peter French and Louisa Stevens 13 Phonetic pedagogy,
Patricia Ashby and Michael Ashby 14 An introduction to phonetic technology,
Mark Huckvale 15 New directions in speech perception,
Rachel Smith 16 New directions in speech production,
Jonathan Harrington, Phil Hoole, and Marianne Pouplier Bibliography Index
