What roles do the speaker and the listener play in communication processes? Providing an overall system view, this innovative textbook explains how those working in the area think about speech. Emphasising contextual and environmental perspectives, Tatham and Morton lead you through classical and modern phonetics alongside discussion of cognitive and biological aspects of speech. In explaining speech production-for-perception and the relationship between phonology and phonetics, this book shows the possible applications (such as language teaching, clinical practice, and speech technology) and how these are relevant to other disciplines, including sociolinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, psychology and speech acoustics. Key Features• Definition and Explanation boxes throughout the text to help you understand key terms and concepts• Tutorial sections in each chapter provide opportunities for you to expand or reinforce your learning• Encourages you to develop understanding of theoretical applications through explanation of traditional and contemporary theories• Evaluation sections enable you to compare the pros and cons of competing theories What roles do the speaker and the listener play in communication processes? Providing an overall system view, this innovative textbook explains how those working in the area think about speech. Emphasising contextual and environmental perspectives, Tatham and Morton lead you through classical and modern phonetics alongside discussion of cognitive and biological aspects of speech. In explaining speech production-for-perception and the relationship between phonology and phonetics, this book shows the possible applications (such as language teaching, clinical practice and speech technology) and how these are relevant to other disciplines, including sociolinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, psychology and speech acoustics. Features include: Definition and Explanation boxes throughout the text to help you understand key terms and concepts; Tutorial sections in each chapter provide opportunities for you to expand or reinforce your learning; Encourages you to develop understanding of theoretical applications through explanation of traditional and contemporary theories; Evaluation sections enable you to compare the pros and cons of competing theories. - Publisher. Copyright 3 Contents 4 Detailed Table of Contents 5 INTRODUCTION 12 CHAPTER 1 - WHAT IS SPEAKING 17 CHAPTER 2 - STUDYING SPEAKING 32 CHAPTER 3 - THE FOUNDATION RESEARCH 58 CHAPTER 4 - CONTEMPORARY MODEL BUILDING 87 CHAPTER 5 - THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS 108 CHAPTER 6 - ESSENTIALS IN DESCRIBING SPEECH 121 CHAPTER 7 - HEARING AND PERCEPTION 137 CHAPTER 8 - THEORIES OF SPEECH PERCEPTION 163 CHAPTER 9 - APPLICATIONS 180 CHAPTER 10 - EXPERIMENTAL WORK 1 - NON-ACOUSTICS 215 CHAPTER 11 - EXPERIMENTAL WORK II - ACOUSTICS 232 Conclusion 255 References 257 Definitions Index 265 Explanations Index 266 Author and Subject Index 268 Developing a framework for a fully explanatory theory of speech production integrating with speech perception, this text focuses on the difference between static models - primarily descriptive - and the dynamics models that attempt to show how basic linguistics and phonetics are related in an actual human speaker or listener The first textbook providing an integrated model of spoken language
