William F. Katz, PhD, is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he teaches and directs research in linguistics, speech science, and language disorders. He has pioneered new treatments for speech loss after stroke, and he studies an unusual disorder known as "foreign accent syndrome."

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• Introduction 1Part I: Getting Started with Phonetics 7Chapter 1: Understanding the A-B-Cs of Phonetics 9Chapter 2: The Lowdown on the Science of Speech Sounds 15Chapter 3: Meeting the IPA: Your New Secret Code 37Chapter 4: Producing Speech: The How-To 51Chapter 5: Classifying Speech Sounds: Your Gateway to Phonology 73Part II: Speculating about English Speech Sounds 91Chapter 6: Sounding Out English Consonants 93Chapter 7: Sounding Out English Vowels 107Chapter 8: Getting Narrow with Phonology 123Chapter 9: Perusing the Phonological Rules of English 131Chapter 10: Grasping the Melody of Language 145Chapter 11: Marking Melody in Your Transcription 157Part III: Having a Blast: Sound, Waveforms, and Speech Movement 169Chapter 12: Making Waves: An Overview of Sound 171Chapter 13: Reading a Sound Spectrogram 191Chapter 14: Confirming That You Just Said What I Thought You Said 219Part IV: Going Global with Phonetics 235Chapter 15: Exploring Different Speech Sources 237Chapter 16: Visiting Other Places, Other Manners 253Chapter 17: Coming from the Mouths of Babes 277Chapter 18: Accentuating Accents 291Chapter 19: Working with Broken Speech 315Part V: The Part of Tens 333Chapter 20: Ten Common Mistakes That Beginning Phoneticians Make and How to Avoid Them 335Chapter 21: Debunking Ten Myths about Various English Accents 341Index 347

William F. Katz, PhD, is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he teaches and directs research in linguistics, speech science, and language disorders. He has pioneered new treatments for speech loss after stroke, and he studies an unusual disorder known as "foreign accent syndrome."

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• Introduction 1Part I: Getting Started with Phonetics 7Chapter 1: Understanding the A-B-Cs of Phonetics 9Chapter 2: The Lowdown on the Science of Speech Sounds 15Chapter 3: Meeting the IPA: Your New Secret Code 37Chapter 4: Producing Speech: The How-To 51Chapter 5: Classifying Speech Sounds: Your Gateway to Phonology 73Part II: Speculating about English Speech Sounds 91Chapter 6: Sounding Out English Consonants 93Chapter 7: Sounding Out English Vowels 107Chapter 8: Getting Narrow with Phonology 123Chapter 9: Perusing the Phonological Rules of English 131Chapter 10: Grasping the Melody of Language 145Chapter 11: Marking Melody in Your Transcription 157Part III: Having a Blast: Sound, Waveforms, and Speech Movement 169Chapter 12: Making Waves: An Overview of Sound 171Chapter 13: Reading a Sound Spectrogram 191Chapter 14: Confirming That You Just Said What I Thought You Said 219Part IV: Going Global with Phonetics 235Chapter 15: Exploring Different Speech Sources 237Chapter 16: Visiting Other Places, Other Manners 253Chapter 17: Coming from the Mouths of Babes 277Chapter 18: Accentuating Accents 291Chapter 19: Working with Broken Speech 315Part V: The Part of Tens 333Chapter 20: Ten Common Mistakes That Beginning Phoneticians Make and How to Avoid Them 335Chapter 21: Debunking Ten Myths about Various English Accents 341Index 347