Articulatory Phonetics [Hardcover]

• Traces the path of the speech production system through to the point where simple vocal sounds are produced, covering the nervous system, and muscles, respiration, and phonation
• Introduces more complex anatomical concepts of articulatory phonetics and particular sounds of human speech, including brain anatomy and coarticulation
• Explores the most current methodologies, measurement tools, and theories in the field
• Features chapter-by-chapter exercises and a series of original illustrations which take the mystery out of the anatomy, physiology, and measurement techniques relevant to speech research
• Includes a companion website at www.wiley.com/go/articulatoryphonetics with additional exercises for each chapter and new, easy-to-understand images of the vocal tract and of measurement tools/data for articulatory phonetics teaching and research
• Password protected instructor’s material includes an answer key for the additional exercises

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction xxi

Part I Getting to Sounds 1

1 The Speech System and Basic Anatomy 3

1.1 The Speech Chain 3

1.1.1 The speech production chain 6

1.2 The Building Blocks of Articulatory Phonetics 7

1.2.1 Materials in the body 9

1.3 The Tools of Articulatory Phonetics 10

Exercises 12

References 13

2 Where It All Starts: The Central Nervous System 15

2.1 The Basic Units of the Nervous System 15