Phonetics for Dummies

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Phonetics 7 Chapter 1: Understanding the A-B-Cs of Phonetics 9 Chapter 2: The Lowdown on the Science of Speech Sounds 15 Chapter 3: Meeting the IPA: Your New Secret Code 37 Chapter 4: Producing Speech: The How-To 51 Chapter 5: Classifying Speech Sounds: Your Gateway to Phonology 73 Part II: Speculating about English Speech Sounds 91 Chapter 6: Sounding Out English Consonants 93 Chapter 7: Sounding Out English Vowels 107 Chapter 8: Getting Narrow with Phonology 123 Chapter 9: Perusing the Phonological Rules of English 131 Chapter 10: Grasping the Melody of Language 145 Chapter 11: Marking Melody in Your Transcription 157 Part III: Having a Blast: Sound, Waveforms, and Speech Movement 169 Chapter 12: Making Waves: An Overview of Sound 171 Chapter 13: Reading a Sound Spectrogram 191 Chapter 14: Confi rming That You Just Said What I Thought You Said 219 Part IV: Going Global with Phonetics 235 Chapter 15: Exploring Different Speech Sources 237 Chapter 16: Visiting Other Places, Other Manners 253 Chapter 17: Coming from the Mouths of Babes 277 Chapter 18: Accentuating Accents 291 Chapter 19: Working with Broken Speech 315 Part V: The Part of Tens 333 Chapter 20: Ten Common Mistakes That Beginning Phoneticians Make and How to Avoid Them 335 Chapter 21: Debunking Ten Myths about Various English Accents 341 Index 347