Overview
This comprehensive textbook explores the scientific study of speech sounds across nine major sections. Beginning with the fundamental principles of phonetic science, it examines the physiological mechanisms of speech production, including detailed coverage of the vocal tract anatomy and how it produces different sounds.The book thoroughly explores articulatory phonetics, detailing how consonants and vowels are formed through specific movements and positions of speech organs. It then transitions to acoustic phonetics, explaining how speech sounds can be analyzed as physical sound waves with distinct patterns of frequency, amplitude, and duration.The text also covers auditory phonetics, investigating how the human ear and brain perceive and process speech sounds. Practical transcription systems are presented, with special emphasis on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and its applications.Applied sections demonstrate the practical uses of phonetic knowledge in language teaching, speech therapy, and forensic speaker identification.
- | Author: Abdulkhay Kosimov
- | Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- | Publication Date: Apr 28, 2025
- | Number of Pages: 00112 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 6208444527
- | ISBN-13: 9786208444525
