This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics is now available in a fully updated second edition. Peter Ladefoged describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages.Important topics covered in Vowels and Consonants include: the main forces operating on the sounds of languagesthe acoustic components of speech and speech synthesiscomputers and Text-To-Speech systems and speech recognition systemsdescriptions of the sounds of a wide variety of languages that are reproduced on the accompanying CDThis revised edition includes a new chapter on how we listen to speech and the greatly expanded CD now contains data on a hundred languages to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life.

• ISBN: 1405124598
• ISBN-13: 9781405124591
• Authors : Peter Ladefoged and Peter Ladefloged
• Manufactured by : Blackwell Publishers
• Edition Description : Revised
• Language : English
• Format:  Paperback
• Publication Date: 1/1/2005
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
• Price ($AUD): $113.95


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