Kent, Raymond D.

The acoustic analysis of speech / Ray D. Kent and Charles Read. - 2nd ed. - New York : Delmar Cengage Learning, 2002. - viii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-300) and index.

Introduction to the study of speech acoustics; acoustic theory of speech production; introduction to the acoustic analysis of speech; modern analytic techniques; the acoustic characteristics of vowels and diphthongs; the acoustic characteristics of consonants; acoustic effects of context and speaker; speech synthesis; appendix a - phonetic symbols for vowels and consonants; abbreviations used in the text; appendix b - elementary physics of sound; appendix c - nonlinear frequency scales for speech analysis.

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Phonetics, Acoustic.

P221.5 / .K46 2002

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