Includes bibliographical references and index.

Segmental production. Physiological foundations -- Vowels -- Consonants -- Coarticulation -- Processes in connected speech -- Prosodic production. Stress and rhythm -- Lexical tone -- Intonation -- Voice quality -- Measuring speech. Measuring vowels -- Measuring consonants -- Measuring speech rhythm -- Fundamental frequency and pitch -- Observing and measuring speech articulation -- Beyond functional speech synthesis -- Audition and perception. Neurological foundations of phonetic sciences -- Psycholinguistic aspects -- Phonetics and eye-tracking -- Automatic speech recognition by machines -- Applications of phonetics. Pedagogical approaches -- Pronunciation teaching -- Sociophonetics -- Developmental phonetics of speech production -- Clinical phonetics -- Forensic phonetics -- The phonetics of talk in interaction -- The phonetics/phonology interface.

"The Handbook is divided into broad subdisciplines of phonetics, broadly reflecting the speech chain. The first two sections cover articulatory phonetics, focusing on segmental and prosodic production respectively. The next section is broadly focused on acoustic phonetics and the measurement of speech. The fourth covers audition and perception, whilst the final section considers the application of phonetics to a number of other areas which are disciplines in their own right, such as developmental language, and clinical linguistics. The structure is not intended to suggest that the basic distinctions inherent in the volume's organization, such as between segments and prosody, or between production and perception are uncontested or without complication. Instead, the aim is to enable readers to both understand the structure of the discipline, and focus their reading in a particular area, in order to more fully engage with these wider theoretical discussions. We return to points concerning the nature and structure of the discipline towards the end of the introduction"-- Provided by publisher.