The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonetics

The Bloomsbury Companion To Phonetics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics.It offers a comprehensive reference resource, giving an overview of key topics and key terms in phonetics. It offers a survey of current research areas and new directions in the field as well as featuring a manageable guide to beginning or developing research. The book gives readers practical guidance for advanced study in the area.The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field, looking at both the core and applied domains of phonetics and speech science. It offers insights into areas as diverse as the acquisition, production and perception of speech, and clinical and forensic phonetics. There is a state of the art exploration of voice and phonation, tone and intonation, phonetic pedagogy, speech technology and phonetic universals.>

About the author

Dr Mark Jones lectures in phonetics at City University London, UKDr Rachael-Anne Knight is Senior Lecturer in Phonetics at City University London, UK

Product details

• Authors: Mark J Jones, Mark J. Jones, Mark J. (City University London Jones, Mark J. Knight Jones, Rachael-Anne Knight
• Assisted by: Dr Mark J. (City University London Jones (Editor), Mark J. Jones (Editor), Mark J. (City University London Jones (Editor), Dr Rachael-Anne (City University London Knight (Editor), Rachael-Anne Knight (Editor), Rachael-Anne (City University London Knight (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2013
• EAN: 9781441146069
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-4606-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Bloomsbury Companions; Continuum Companions; Bloomsbury Companions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Phonetics, phonology