Phonetics is an essential part of linguistics, as it is through analysing spoken language that linguistic data is collected. This book leads the reader through the main areas of phonetics, including how speech sounds are made and how phoneticians classify them in certain ways, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and how sounds are transmitted from speaker to hearer.
1. The science of speech
2. Making speech sounds
3. Classifying speech sounds
4. Tone and tone languages
5. Suprasegmentals
6. Acoustics of speech sounds
7. Sounds in systems
8. Connected speech and coarticulation
9. Variation
10. Conclusion