Vowels and Consonants by Ladefoged, Peter

Vowels and Consonants (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781444334296)

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Vowels and Consonants by Ladefoged, Peter

Vowels and Consonants

$58.95
Vowels and Consonants by Ladefoged, Peter

Vowels and Consonants

$58.95
Format: Paperback
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This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as speech technology.
  • Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages
  • Written by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, Sandra Ferrari Disner
  • Includes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and additional updates throughout the book
  • Explores the acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual components of speech, demonstrates speech synthesis, and explains how speech recognition systems work
  • Supported by an accompanying website at www.vowelsandconsonants3e.com featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life


Author: Peter Ladefoged, Sandra Ferrari Disner
ISBN-10: 1444334298
ISBN-13: 9781444334296
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 05/07/2012
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.73w x 0.49d
By Peter Ladefoged
By Peter Ladefoged
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Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006) was Research Phonetician and Professor of Phonetics Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was Director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory from 1962 to 1991 and was president of the Linguistic Society of America. He is the author of numerous books, including The Sounds of the World's Languages (with I. Maddieson, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), Phonetic Data Analysis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), and A Course in Phonetics, Sixth Edition (with Keith Johnson, 2010).

Sandra Ferrari Disner teaches general and forensic linguistics at the University of Southern California. She has over 25 years of experience in speech technology, having developed commercial text-to-speech and speech-recognition systems in five languages, as well as the world's first talking video games.

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