An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Good book to understand Phonetics: This book provides with a clear explanation of the field being of Phonetics and its different features. It also provides clear examples of the different elements it covers. A review of An Introduction to Phonetics and [... more]
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Coffin's Overtones of Bel Canto: Phonetic Basis of ...
I studied personally with Dr. Coffin: Dr. Coffin took my broken voice (caused by incorrect teaching by former teachers), put it back together within my 2 years graduate study with him, and added an octave to my upper range. I enjoyed 30 years as a [... more]
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A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
David Crystal gets right to the point: the book is especially useful when preparing for an examination, because it gives that kind of information you are looking for, by getting right to the point. Very helpful are the cross-references which can serve as [... more]
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A Course in Phonetics
Great Introductory Textbook: As a linguistics student at UCSB, I must say that this has been one of the better textbooks that I've had. It is incredibly clear in explaining all the concepts and terminology of phonetics. Additionally, as someone who [... more]
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Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A ...
What you'd expect: This book is exactly what one would expect it to be: a thorough explanation of the International Phonetic Alphabet. It has a beginning section on the description of consonant and vowel sounds and thier places of articulation. The best [... more]
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Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics
Excellent Introductory Text to Acoustic & Auditory Phonetics: Johnson's text fills a lacuna in Phonetics primers by introducing the fundamentals of acoustics in terms that students new to phonetics can grasp. Johnson intersperses fairly complex [... more]
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English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course
Oriented Towards British-English: All in all, this is a good book. The explanations are clear and the chapters are short; it's a good introduction to phonetics and phonology. People who are interested in American-English pronunciation should be warned [... more]
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Clinical Phonetics
good information; great IPA reference: I felt that this book was a really good introductory phonetics text book. I've used it as a good standard for phonetic transcription over the past few years as an SLP student. It's a great reference, although it is [... more]
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Acoustic Phonetics
The standard treatise on the acoustics of speech production: The author, Ken Stevens, together with Gunnar Fant, is largely responsible for the development of our understanding of the acoustics of speech production, that is, of how the changing [... more]
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Fundamentals of Phonetics: A Practical Guide for Students
Review of an Applied Linguistics Distance Learner (M.A.): I found the book to be very well organized and a useful reference. The CD was not as helpful. The author could have done more with the CD, putting more material to get his message across. All in [... more]
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The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics
Great resource, many typos: We used this text for our second-year phonetics course, and I found it to be very helpful and well-written. Anyone who's interested in language will probably find it interesting as well. Two thumbs up for Prof. Rogers! Author: [... more]
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Principles of Phonetics
Covering the bases in phonetics: I'm a phonetics instructor, and I used this book as a sort of personal in-service training course during a break between semesters. I have been through many similar books, so much of the material was familiar, but there [... more]
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