TY - BOOK AU - Kent,Raymond D. AU - Read,Charles TI - The acoustic analysis of speech SN - 0769301126 AV - P221.5 .K46 2002 U1 - 414.8 KEN R 21 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Delmar Cengage Learning KW - Phonetics, Acoustic N1 - 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 ER -