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Acoustic phonetics /

Stevens, Kenneth N., 1924-

Acoustic phonetics / Kenneth N. Stevens - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998. - viii, 607 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Current studies in linguistics ; 30 . - Current studies in linguistics series ; 30. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [583]-602) and index.

Anatomy and physiology of speech production; source mechanisms; basic acoustics of vocal tract resonators; auditory processing of speechlike sounds; phonological representation of utterances; vowels - acoustic events with a relatively open vocal tract; the basic stop consonants - bursts and formant transitions; obstruent consonants; sonorant consonants; some influences of context on speech sound production.

026219404X (alk. paper)

97046999


Phonetics, Acoustic.

P221.5 / .S74 1998

414.8 STE