Articulatory phonetics; tools for analyzing the world's languages, 4th ed.9781556711657 Articulatory phonetics The field of articulatory phonetics is a subfield of phonetics. In studying articulation, phoneticians attempt to document how humans produce speech sounds (vowels and consonants). ; tools for analyzing the world's languages, 4th ed. Bickford, Anita C. and Rick Floyd. Internat'l Academic Bookstore 2006 219 pages $28.50 Paperback P221 This textbook, a revision and expansion of A Manual for Articulatory Phonetics, is meant to explain to phonetics phonetics (fōnĕt`ĭks, fə–), study of the sounds of languages from three basic points of view. Phonetics studies speech sounds according to their production in the vocal organs (articulatory phonetics), their physical properties students the principles that will help them approach any language and describe and mimic its sounds with accuracy. The book's organization is based on articulatory phonetics courses taught at SIL International. Information from others, including those outside of SIL See safety integrity level. 1. SIL - "SIL - A Simulation Language", N. Houbak, LNCS 426, Springer 1990. 2. SIL - SNOBOL Implementation Language. Intermediate language forming a virtual machine for the implementation of portable interpreters. , is incorporated. This edition has chapters on vowels and palatography, has been updated to match current terminology, replaces the Americanist transcription systems with the symbols approved by the International Phonetic Association The International Phonetic Association (IPA, French: L'Association Phonétique Internationale (API)) is an organization that promotes the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. , and has been adjusted for better pedagogical ped·a·gog·ic also ped·a·gog·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of pedagogy. 2. Characterized by pedantic formality: a haughty, pedagogic manner. use. The text is oriented mainly toward native speakers of American English. In addition to the subject index, an index of languages is provided. Floyd has taught phonetics and other courses at several SIL schools and is a linguistic consultant of SIL Peru. Bickford teaches courses in second language acquisition and articulatory phonetics at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, U. of North Dakota. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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