Acoustic phonetics : a course of basic readings /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.
Description:469 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/119437
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Other authors / contributors:Fry, Dennis Butler
ISBN:0521213932 : $16.00
Notes:Includes bibliographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Acoustics of the Speech Mechanism
  • 1. The Carrier Nature of Speech
  • 2. Some Properties of the Glottal Sound Source
  • 3. An Acoustical Theory of Vowel Production and Some of its Implications
  • Part II. Acoustic Analysis of Speech
  • 4. The Sound Spectrograph
  • 5. Vowel Resonances
  • 6. Control Methods Used in a Study of the Vowels
  • 7. The Acoustics of Consonants
  • 8. Spectra of Fricative Noise in Human Speech
  • 9. Spectral Properties of Fricative Consonants
  • 10. Acoustic Properties of Stop Consonants
  • Part III. Acoustic Cues in Speech
  • 11. Effects of Filtering and Masking
  • 12. An Analysis of Perceptual Confusions Among Some English Consonants
  • 13. The Interconversion of Audible and Visible Patterns as a Basis.for Research in the Perception of Speech
  • 14. The Synthesis of Speech from Signals Which Have a Low Information Rate
  • 15. An Experimental Study of the Acoustic Determinants of Vowel Color Observations on One- and Two-Formant Vowels Synthesized from Spectrographic Patterns
  • 16. The Identification and Discrimination of Synthetic Vowels
  • 17. Some Experiments on the Perception of Synthetic Speech Sounds
  • 18. Acoustic Loci and Transitional Cues for Consonants
  • 19. Cues for the Discrimination of American English Fricatives in Spoken Syllables
  • 20. Acoustic Cues for the Perception of Initial | w,j,r,l | in English
  • 21. The Role of Consonant-Vowel Transitions in the Perception of the Stop and ,Nasal Consonants
  • 22. The Discrimination of Speech Sounds Within and Across Phoneme Boundaries
  • 23. The Voicing Dimension: Some Experiments in Comparative Phonetics Leigh Lisker
  • Part IV. Investigation of Prosodic Features
  • 24. Vowel Amplitude and Phonemic Stress in American English Ilse Lehiste
  • 25. On Vowel Duration in English
  • 26. Some Basic Considerations in the Analysis of Intonation Ilse Lehiste
  • 17. Some Acoustic Correlates of Word Stress in American English
  • 28. Experiments in the Perception of Stress
  • 29. The Dependence of Stress Judgments on Vowel Formant Structure
  • 30. An Experimental Study of Some Intonation Contours
  • Part V. Speech Synthesis by Rule
  • 31. Minimal Rules for Synthesizing Speech