Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Johnson Keith
• Pubblicazione: Chicester, : Wiley, 2011
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 414
• Soggetto topico: Hearing; Phonetics, Acoustic; Languages & Literatures; Philology & Linguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part IFundamentals; Chapter 1Basic Acoustics and Acoustic Filters; 1.1 The Sensation of Sound; 1.2 The Propagation of Sound; 1.3 Types of Sounds; 1.3.1 Simple periodic waves; 1.3.2 Complex periodic waves; 1.3.3 Aperiodic waves; 1.4 Acoustic Filters; Recommended Reading; Exercises; Chapter 2The Acoustic Theory of SpeechProduction:Deriving Schwa; 2.1 Voicing; 2.2 Voicing Quanta; 2.3 Vocal Tract Filtering; 2.4 Pendulums,Standing Waves,and Vowel Formants; 2.5 Discovering Nodes and Antinodes in an Acoustic Tube ; Recommended ReadingExercises; Chapter 3Digital Signal Processing; 3.1 Continuous versus Discrete Signals; 3.2 Analog-to-Digital Conversion; 3.2.1 Sampling; 3.2.2 Quantization; 3.3 Signal Analysis Methods; 3.3.1 RMS amplitude; 3.3.2 Fast Fourier transform (FFT); 3.3.3 Auto-correlation pitch tracking; 3.3.4 Digital filters; 3.3.5 Linear predictive coding (LPC); 3.3.6 Spectra and spectrograms; Recommended Reading; Exercises; Chapter 4Basic Audition; 4.1 Anatomy of the Peripheral Auditory System; 4.2 The Auditory Sensation of Loudness; 4.3 Frequency Response of the Auditory System ; 4.4 Saturation and Masking4.5 Auditory Representations; Recommended Reading; Exercises; Chapter 5Speech Perception; 5.1 Auditory Ability Shapes Speech Perception; 5.2 Phonetic Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception; 5.2.1 Categorical perception; 5.2.2 Phonetic coherence; 5.3 Linguistic Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception; 5.4 Perceptual Similarity; 5.4.1 Maps from distances; 5.4.2 The perceptual map of fricatives; Recommended Reading; Exercises; Part IISpeech Analysis; Chapter 6Vowel s; 6.1 Tube Models of Vowel Production; 6.2 Perturbation Theory ; 6.3 "Preferred " Vowels - Quantal Theory and AdaptiveDispersion6.4 Vowel Formants and the Acoustic Vowel Space; 6.6 Cross-linguistic Vowel Perception; Recommended Reading; Exercises; Chapter 7Fricatives; 7.1 Turbulence; 7.2 Place of Articulation in Fricatives; 7.3 Quantal Theory and Fricatives; 7.4 Fricative Auditory Spectra; 7.5 Dimensions of Fricative Perception; Recommended Reading; Exercises; Chapter 8Stops and Affricates; 8.1 Source Functions for Stops and Affricates; 8.1.1 Phonation types; 8.1.2 Sound sources in stops and affricates; 8.2 Vocal Tract Filter Functions in Stops ; 8.3 Affricates8.4 Auditory Properties of Stops; 8.5 Stop Perception in Different Vowel Contexts; Recommended Reading; Exercises; Chapter 9Nasals and Laterals; 9.1 Bandwidth; 9.2 Nasal Stops; 9.3 Laterals; 9.4 Nasalization; 9.5 Nasal Consonant Perception; Recommended Reading; Exercises; References; Answers to Selected Short-answerQuestions; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Fully revised and expanded, the third edition of Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics maintains a balance of accessibility and scholarly rigor to provide students with a complete introduction to the physics of speech. Newly updated to reflect the latest advances in the field Features a balanced and student-friendly approach to speech, with engaging side-bars on related topics Includes suggested readings and exercises designed to review and expand upon the material in each chapter, complete with selected answers Presents a new chapter on speech
• Titolo autorizzato: Acoustic and auditory phonetics
• ISBN: 1-283-17822-2; 9786613178220; 1-4443-4307-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456267103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II