Phonetics, phonology

1 Introduction 1

2 Producing a Voice and Controlling Its Sound 25

3 Neurological Foundations of Voice Production and Perception 72

4 Physical Characteristics and the Voice: Can We Hear What a Speaker Looks Like? 110

5 Recognizing Speaker Identity From Voice: Theoretical and Ethological Perspectives and a Psychological Model 156

6 The Brain Behind the Voice: Cerebral Models of Voice Production

Bryan Gick is Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Speech Research Laboratory at the University of British Columbia, and is a Senior Researcher at Haskins Laboratories. Dr. Gick’s work has been featured on NOVA, NPR Morning Edition, and BBC Radio’s “Naked Scientist”. He is the editor of The Oneida Creation Story as told by Demus Elm and Harvey Antone (with F. Lounsbury, 2000).

Ian Wilson is Professor and Director of the CLR Phonetics Lab at the Uni

Drawing on major research developments in the field, Vihman has updated and extensively revised the 1996 edition of her classic text to provide a thorough and stimulating overview of current studies of child production and perception and early word learning.

• Offers a full survey of the thinking on how babies develop phonological knowledge
• Provides a much needed update on the field – one in which this book remains unique, and in which there have also been dramatic develop

• Combines new and influential research, along with articulate overviews of the key topics in theoretical and applied areas of speech communication
• Accessibly struc

Allard Jongman is a Professor in the Linguistics Department of the University of Kansas, and Co-Director of the University of Kansas Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Laboratory (KUPPL). Dr Jongman has published extensively on acoustic and auditory phonetics in a variety of languages.

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List of Abbreviations.

1. An Introduction to Optimality Theory.

1.1 How OT Began.

1.2 Why Must Constraints Be Violable?.

1.3 The Nature of Constraints in OT.

1.4 Candidate Sets: OT’s Gen Component.

1.5 Candidate Evaluation: OT’s Eval Component.

1.6 Constraint Activity.

1.7 Differences

Bryan Gick is Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Speech Research Laboratory at the University of British Columbia, and is a Senior Researcher at Haskins Laboratories. Dr. Gick’s work has been featured on NOVA, NPR Morning Edition, and BBC Radio’s “Naked Scientist”. He is the editor of The Oneida Creation Story as told by Demus Elm and Harvey Antone (with F. Lounsbury, 2000).

Ian Wilson is Professor and Director of the CLR Phonetics Lab at the Uni

Jutta Blaser, Universität Mainz.

Preface.

1 Setting the Stage.

1.1 Phonetics or Phonology?

1.2 Fast Speech?

2 Processes in Conversational English.

2.1 The Vulnerability Hierarchy.

2.2 Reduction Processes in English.

2.3 Stress as a Conditioning Factor.

2.4 Syllabic Conditioning Factors.

2.5 Other Processes.

2.6 Icons.

2.7 Weak Forms?

2.8 Combinations of these Processes.

3 Attempts at Phonol

Die gesprochene Sprache ist mittlerweile zu einem der interessantesten Forschungsbereiche ‑ nicht nur der Linguistik ‑ geworden. Dieses Buch setzt sich zum Ziel, für die drei großen romanischen Sprachen die wichtigsten Probleme gesprochener Sprache darzustellen. Ausgangspunkt ist die begriffliche Unterscheidung zwischen dem ‚mündlichen‘ Medium und der ‚mündlichen‘ Konzeption, die hier als ‚kommunikative Nähe‘ im Gegensatz zu 'kommunikativer Distanz' gefasst wird. Die zentralen Kapitel b

Bruce Hayes is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published extensively in books and journals, and is the author of Metrical Stress Theory: Principles and Case Studies (1995), and editor (with Robert Kirchner and Donca Steriade) of Phonetically-Based Phonology (2004). His website is available at: www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes