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Book Review: A Critical Introduction to Phonetics by Ken Lodge

A Critical Introduction to Phonetics
by Ken Lodge

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Synopsis

A new stance on the presentation of basic phonetic skills for students of linguistics, using examples drawn from a wide-range of languages.

Description

Critical Introductions to Linguistics present core areas of the subject from refreshing new perspectives. This book takes a new stance on the presentation of basic phonetic skills for students of linguistics. Using examples drawn from a wide-range of languages Ken Lodge introduces the key aspects of phonetics, examining the difference between speech and writing, the physiology of speech production, basic and detailed articulation, and acoustic phonetics.

This book contains a practical guide to transcriptions from sound recordings, as well as a section on applications of phonetics to fields of study such as language variation and accent. A Critical Introduction to Phonetics provides comprehensive coverage of all the key areas of the field, and contains chapter summaries to help the reader navigate the text. Critical thinking is prompted throughout, and this text should therefore be essential reading for students on introductory phonetics courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.


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Table Of Contents

Preface

1. Why phonetics?
2. Articulation
3. The articulators in combination
4. Transcription
5. Segmentation
6. Prosodic features
7. Continuous speech
8. Varieties of English
9. Acoustic phonetics
Glossary
References
Index

About the author

Ken Lodge is Reader in Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of East Anglia.

Reviews

“Lodge uses his practical classroom experience to provide safe guidance, and his theoretical perspective to provide a phonetically more accurate non-segmental foundation to phonetics. I particularly like the extensive introductions to continuous speech, prosody, resonance and segmentation, which will be of interest to phonologists and more advanced students of phonetics as well as beginners” – Professor Jim Scobbie, Speech Science Research Centre, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK.

A Critical Introduction to Phonetics by Ken Lodge
Publication Date: 10th Jan, 2009

ISBN: 0826488749
ISBN13: 9780826488749

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