Vowels and Consonants

by Peter Ladefoged, Sandra Ferrari Disner

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 Will be supported by a forthcoming accompanying website featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction, Language

240 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[June · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very interesting read to introduce yourself into Phonetics. The author’s style and explanations made everything super clear, and the little jokes here and there made it very easy to follow. I would recommend this to anyone interested, outside or inside of the academic world.

[isabelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

very well written and easy to read. my favorite parts were about pitch and tone in english sentences and how vowels and consonants differ in the formants and spectrograms. now anyone outside my window thinks i'm cool and not strange for trying to pronounce funny sounds to myself B)

[Kara Pirko · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this teachers edition to phonics. I think that it would be a nice beginner teachers guide to teaching phonics. It does not have mounds of information but it would be helpful when lesson planning.

[Kourosh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although this is an introductory book, it offers quite a lot of detail, and does so in such a simple manner that I often didn't actually realise that they were complicated details. Other authors of linguistics textbooks might want to take note of this writing style.

[Mhizzice]

I one to learn the chart

[Michael Vance · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book taught a lot but just wasn't fun to look at. Nothing was pleasing and was easy to lose interest in.

[Emperador Spock · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent phonetics introductory book. It may be a bit basic for anyone with some knowledge in the field, but it doesn't dumb down what it tells, includes everything that should be in a book like this, and shows the way for those who are interested.

[Hans Henrik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Linguistics

[Rasmus Puggaard]

Read this for phonetics course. Fantastic read, and really engaging writing by Ladefoged

[Hibiscus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Formants, speech recognition & synthesis insight, sounds around the globe, field techniques, IPA and more... + recorded examples