Preface xi
Part I Introductory Concepts 1
Chapter 1
Articulation and Acoustics 2
Speech Production 2
Sound Waves 6
Places of Articulatory Gestures 10
The Oro-Nasal Process 15
Manners of Articulation 15
Stop 15
Fricative 17
Approximant 17
Lateral (Approximant) 17
Additional Consonantal Gestures 18
The Acoustics of Consonants 19
The Articulation of Vowel Sounds 20
The Sounds of Vowels 23
Suprasegmentals 24
Recap 26
Exercises 27
Chapter 2
Phonology and Phonetic Transcription 35
The Transcription of Consonants 37
The Transcription of Vowels 41
Consonant and Vowel Charts 45
Phonology 47
Recap 51
Exercises 52
Performance Exercises 56
PART II ENGLISH PHONETICS?59
Chapter 3
The Consonants of English 60
Stop Consonants 61
Fricatives 69
Affricates 71
Nasals 71
Approximants 72
Overlapping Gestures 73
English Consonant Allophones 76
Diacritics 80
Recap 81
Exercises 81
Performance Exercises 86
Chapter 4
English Vowels 89
Transcription and Phonetic Dictionaries 89
Vowel Quality 91
The Auditory Vowel Space 93
American and British Vowels 95
Diphthongs 97
Rhotic Vowels 99
Lexical Sets 101
Unstressed Syllables 104
Tense and Lax Vowels 105
English Vowel Allophones 107
Recap 109
Exercises 110
Performance Exercises 113
Chapter 5
English Words and Sentences 115
Words in Connected Speech 115
Stress 119
Degrees of Stress 121
Sentence Rhythm 124
Intonation 126
Target Tones 134
Recap 138
Exercises 139
Performance Exercises 142
Part III GENERAL PHONETICS?143
Chapter 6
Airstream Mechanisms and Phonation Types 144
Airstream Mechanisms 144
States of the Glottis 156
Voice Onset Time 159
Summary of Actions of the Glottis 164
Recap 165
Exercises 166
Performance Exercises 168
Chapter 7
Consonantal Gestures 173
Articulatory Targets 173
Types of Articulatory Gestures 183
Stops 183
Nasals 184
Fricatives 185
Trills, Taps, and Flaps 186
Laterals 189
Summary of Manners of Articulation 191
Recap 192
Exercises 192
Performance Exercises 194
Chapter 8
Acoustic Phonetics 197
Source/Filter Theory 197
Tube Models 200
Perturbation Theory 202
Acoustic Analysis 203
Acoustics of Consonants 208
Interpreting Spectrograms 213
Individual Differences 221
Recap 224
Exercises 225
Chapter 9
Vowels and Vowel-Like Articulations 227
Cardinal Vowels 227
Secondary Cardinal Vowels 232
Vowels in Other Accents of English 234
Vowels in Other Languages 236
Advanced Tongue Root 238
Rhotacized Vowels 239
Nasalization 241
Summary of Vowel Quality 242
Semivowels 242
Secondary Articulatory Gestures 244
Recap 246
Exercises 247
Performance Exercises 249
Chapter 10
Syllables and Suprasegmental Features 253
Syllables 253
Stress 259
Length 260
Timing 261
Intonation and Tone 264
Stress, Tone, and Pitch Accent Languages 270
Recap 271
Exercises 272
Performance Exercises 274
Chapter 11
Linguistic Phonetics 277
Phonetics of the Community and of the Individual 277
The International Phonetic Alphabet 278
Feature Hierarchy 282
A Problem with Linguistic Explanations 287
Controlling Articulatory Movements 289
Memory for Speech 291
The Balance Between Phonetic Forces 294
Recap 296
Performance Exercises 296
Appendix A: Additional Material for Transcription 303
Appendix B: Guidelines for Contributors to the Journal of the International
Phonetic Association 305
Notes 307
Glossary 313
Further Reading 321
Index 325