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Informationen zum Autor Peter Ladefoged , UCLA Research Phonetician and Professor of Phonetics Emeritus, was Director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory from 1962 to 1991. His numerous books include Vowels and Consonants (Blackwell, 2001), Sounds of the World's Languages (with Ian Maddieson, Blackwell, 1996), and A Course in Phonetics (fourth edition, 2001). Klappentext Describing how people talk requires recording and analyzing phonetic data. This is true for researchers investigating the variant pronunciations of street names in Los Angeles, missionaries translating the Bible into a little-known tongue, and scholars obtaining data from a carefully controlled group in a laboratory experiment. Phonetic Data Analysis examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental phonetics, most of them requiring little more than a tape recorder, a video camera, and a computer. This book enables readers to work with a speaker in a classroom setting or to go out into the field and make their own discoveries about how the sounds of a language are made. Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, introduces the experimental phonetic techniques for describing the major phonetic characteristics of any language. Throughout the book there are also comments, written in a more anecdotal fashion, on Ladefoged's own fieldwork. Zusammenfassung This work examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental phonetics! most of them requiring little more than a tape recorder! a video camera and a computer. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface.Acknowledgments 1. Recording The Sounds Of A Language:Deciding What To RecordFinding SpeakersRecording SystemsMaking A RecordingDigital RecordingListening To RecordingsField NotesInstrumental Phonetic Techniques2. Finding The Places Of Articulation:Still And Video PhotographyBasic PalatographyMore Elaborate PalatographyElectropalatographyFurther Reading3. Aerodynamic Investigations:Recording Air Pressure And AirflowMeasuring Air Pressure And AirflowInterpreting Aerodynamic RecordsQuantifying NasalizationPhonation TypesElectroglottographyFurther Reading4. Pitch! Loudness And Length:Pitch AnalysisInterpreting Pitch CurvesLoudness! Intensity And StressWaveforms And The Measurement Of DurationFurther Reading5. Characterizing Vowels:Sound SpectrogramsSpectraVowel ChartsNasalized VowelsFurther Reading6. Acoustic Analysis Of Consonants:Waveforms! Spectrograms And Duration MeasurementsSpectral Characteristics Of Nasals! Laterals! Approximants And TrillsFricatives And Stop BurstsSpectrograms And Place Of ArticulationSpectrograms And Articulatory MovementsFurther Reading7. Acoustic Analysis Of Phonation Types:Waveforms Of Different Glottal StatesSpectral Characteristics Of Phonation TypesFurther Reading8. Coda:A General Purpose Phonetics LaboratoryMore Elaborate Instrumental Phonetic TechniquesSaying Goodbye To FieldworkIndex. ...
