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.