Table of Contents

Preface
Section 1
Survey
1: The science of speech
The speech chain
Phonetics
Phonetics and linguistics
2: Making speech sounds
Speech and breathing
The larynx
The vocal tract above the larynx
Describing speech production
3: Classifying speech sounds
Vowels
Consonants
4: Tone and tone languages
Lexical and grammatical use of tone
Tone levels and contours
Tones and context
Tones and pitch-accents
5: Suprasegmentals
Stress and accent
Intonation
Rhythm
Other suprasegmental features
6: Acoustics of speech sounds
Acoustic waveforms
Acoustic and articulatory classification of speech sounds
Acoustics of suprasegmental features
7: Sounds in systems
Systems of sounds
Groups of sounds
8: Connected speech and coarticulation
Assimilation
Coarticulation
Elision
9: Variation
Regional variation
Social variation
Style variation
Age and variation
Choosing the speech to study
Conclusion
Section 2
Readings
Section 3
References
section 4
Glossary

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Covers the main areas of phonetics, including how speech sounds are made. By Peter Roach. Part of the Oxford Introductions to Language Study series.