Handbook of Phonetic Sciences

William J. Hardcastle is Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. He is the author of Physiology of Speech Production (1976) and Disorders of Fluency and their Effects on Communication (with P. Dalton, 1989). John Laver is Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His publications include The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality (1980), Principles of Phonetics (1994), and The Gift of Speech (1996). Fiona E. Gibbon is Head of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork in Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She is co-editor of Vowel Disorders (2002).

“In conclusion, the second edition of ‘The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences’ is an invaluable reference. The clarity of its explanations, its accurate and updated review of theories and methods, and its analysis of both the strengths and weaknesses of each tool at the disposal of researchers will all be of great help to scholars involved in various degrees of speech analysis."  (Linguist List, 4 June 2013)

• List of Contributors ixPreface to the Second Edition xiiIntroduction 1Part I Experimental Phonetics 71 Laboratory Techniques for Investigating Speech Articulation 9Maureen Stone2 The Aerodynamics of Speech 39Christine H. Shadle3 Acoustic Phonetics 81Jonathan Harrington4 Investigating the Physiology of Laryngeal Structures 130Hajime HirosePart II Biological Perspectives 1535 Organic Variation of the Vocal Apparatus 155Janet Mackenzie Beck6 Brain Mechanisms Underlying Speech Motor Control 202Hermann Ackermann and Wolfram Ziegler7 Development of Neural Control of Orofacial Movements for Speech 251Anne SmithPart III Modeling Speech Production and Perception 2978 Speech Acquisition 299Barbara L. Davis9 Coarticulation and Connected Speech Processes 316Edda Farnetani and Daniel Recasens10 Theories and Models of Speech Production 353Anders Löfqvist11 Voice Source Variation and Its Communicative Functions 378Christer Gobl and Ailbhe Ní Chasaide12 Articulatory–Acoustic Relations as the Basis of Distinctive Contrasts 424Kenneth N. Stevens and Helen M. Hanson13 Aspects of Auditory Processing Related to Speech Perception 454Brian C. J. Moore14 Cognitive Processes in Speech Perception 489James M. McQueen and Anne CutlerPart IV Linguistic Phonetics 52115 The Prosody of Speech: Timing and Rhythm 523Janet Fletcher16 Tone and Intonation 603Mary E. Beckman and Jennifer J. Venditti17 The Relation between Phonetics and Phonology 653John J. Ohala18 Phonetic Notation 678John H. Esling19 Sociophonetics 703Paul Foulkes, James M. Scobbie, and Dominic WattPart V Speech Technology 75520 An Introduction to Signal Processing for Speech 757Daniel P. W. Ellis21 Speech Synthesis 781Rolf Carlson and Björn Granström22 Automatic Speech Recognition 804Steve Renals and Simon KingIndex 839