Phonetic Data Analysis: An Introduction to Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780631232698)

Phonetic Data Analysis examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental phonetics, most of them requiring little more than a tape recorder, a video camera, and a computer.

• Examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental phonetics.
  
• Written by Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians.
  
• Enables readers to work with a speaker in class or go out into the field and make their own discoveries about how the sounds of a language are made.
  
• Provides full descriptions of techniques that are readily available and do not require the resources of a major phonetics laboratory.
  
• Includes enlightening comments throughout about Ladefoged's own fieldwork experiences.

Author: Peter Ladefoged
ISBN-10: 0631232699
ISBN-13: 9780631232698
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2003
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.68w x 0.80d