Fully revised and expanded, the third edition of Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics maintains a balance of accessibility and scholarly rigor to provide students with a complete introduction to the physics of speech.
• Newly updated to reflect the latest advances in the field
• Features a balanced and student-friendly approach to speech, with engaging side-bars on related topics
• Includes suggested readings and exercises designed to review and expand upon the material in each chapter, complete with selected answers
• Presents a new chapter on speech perception that addresses theoretical issues as well as practical concerns
Author(s): Keith Johnson
Edition: Third Edition
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 222
Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
Fundamentals
Chapter 1
Basic Acoustics and Acoustic Filters
1.1 The Sensation of Sound
1.2 The Propagation of Sound
1.3 Types of Sounds
1.3.1 Simple periodic waves
1.3.2 Complex periodic waves
1.3.3 Aperiodic waves
1.4 Acoustic Filters
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Chapter 2
The Acoustic Theory of Speech
Production:Deriving Schwa
2.1 Voicing
2.2 Voicing Quanta
2.3 Vocal Tract Filtering
2.4 Pendulums,Standing Waves,and Vowel Formants
2.5 Discovering Nodes and Antinodes in an Acoustic Tube
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Chapter 3
Digital Signal Processing
3.1 Continuous versus Discrete Signals
3.2 Analog-to-Digital Conversion
3.2.1 Sampling
3.2.2 Quantization
3.3 Signal Analysis Methods
3.3.1 RMS amplitude
3.3.2 Fast Fourier transform (FFT)
3.3.3 Auto-correlation pitch tracking
3.3.4 Digital filters
3.3.5 Linear predictive coding (LPC)
3.3.6 Spectra and spectrograms
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Chapter 4
Basic Audition
4.1 Anatomy of the Peripheral Auditory System
4.2 The Auditory Sensation of Loudness
4.3 Frequency Response of the Auditory System
4.4 Saturation and Masking
4.5 Auditory Representations
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Chapter 5
Speech Perception
5.1 Auditory Ability Shapes Speech Perception
5.2 Phonetic Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception
5.2.1 Categorical perception
5.2.2 Phonetic coherence
5.3 Linguistic Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception
5.4 Perceptual Similarity
5.4.1 Maps from distances
5.4.2 The perceptual map of fricatives
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Part II
Speech Analysis
Chapter 6
Vowel s
6.1 Tube Models of Vowel Production
6.2 Perturbation Theory
6.3 “Preferred ” Vowels – Quantal Theory and Adaptive
Dispersion
6.4 Vowel Formants and the Acoustic Vowel Space
6.6 Cross-linguistic Vowel Perception
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Chapter 7
Fricatives
7.1 Turbulence
7.2 Place of Articulation in Fricatives
7.3 Quantal Theory and Fricatives
7.4 Fricative Auditory Spectra
7.5 Dimensions of Fricative Perception
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Chapter 8
Stops and Affricates
8.1 Source Functions for Stops and Affricates
8.1.1 Phonation types
8.1.2 Sound sources in stops and affricates
8.2 Vocal Tract Filter Functions in Stops
8.3 Affricates
8.4 Auditory Properties of Stops
8.5 Stop Perception in Different Vowel Contexts
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Chapter 9
Nasals and Laterals
9.1 Bandwidth
9.2 Nasal Stops
9.3 Laterals
9.4 Nasalization
9.5 Nasal Consonant Perception
Recommended Reading
Exercises
References
Answers to Selected Short-answer
Questions
Index
