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"Only Peter Ladefoged, the world′s leading phonetician, could produce a work like this: an authoritative and thorough introduction to phonetics written in a style that can be understood by a reader with no prior background in linguistics"
John Ohala, University of California, Berkeley
John Ohala, University of California, Berkeley
"[This book] lucidly discusses issues that are not commonly covered in introductions to phonetics, including computerized speech synthesis and recognition, which ties in with a major focus on acoustics from the first chapter onwards." Times Higher Education Supplement
"This is a fascinating, accessible, and reader–friendly book by a master phonetician, about how speech sounds are made, and how they can be analyzed. Being able to hear the sounds under discussion, on the accompanying CD, is really useful. I warmly recommend the book to everyone with an interest, professional or otherwise, in spoken language." John Laver, Queen Margaret University College
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It will change the way we introduce students to phonetics.
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Ladefoged Outdoes Himself
9 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
Peter Ladefoged has recently revised his two fine introductory texts, "Elements of Acoustic Phonetics" and "A Course in Phonetics" and, in 1996, published an advanced text on phonology "The Sounds of the World's Languages" with Ian Maddieson, his collaborator phonologist in their first-hand, on-site studies of African languages and many others. His new book brings acoustic phonetics and phonology together in a brilliantly designed course, complete with a CD-ROM containing many important and interesting examples and demonstrations. After such a fine introduction, the student is ready to study phonology and/or phonetics more intensively and become a professional. The generous number of figures and tables are well chosen; the coverage of technical techniques and their applications for research are broadly representative of speech science and technology. This is one book that lives up to the glowing remarks of colleagues on the back cover. My own more-advanced book, "The Acoustics of Speech Communicatiion" will work better, especially for linguistics students, if they have used "Vowels and Consonants" for their first course.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Lots of illustrations...
5 Mar 2002
Format:Paperback
This book is the text for the introductory phonetics course I am currently taking. It has a strong acoustic basis, and lots of charts, graphs, and spectra.
Most of us have no background in either phonetics or acoustics (as might be expected in a linguistics program). Although the illustrations are undoubtedly of the sort which are most commonly used in the field, to a student not already familiar with what they represent, they can be mystifying. An introduction and explanation of the scales used would have saved us a lot of class time we spent getting a grasp of this.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
very informative
19 Jun 2009
Format:Paperback
for an academic book, i found it very easy to read and not boring at all. Its a classic!
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