William J. Hardcastle & John Laver 
The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences [EPUB ebook] 

List of Contributors ix

Preface to the Second Edition xii

Introduction 1

Part I Experimental Phonetics 7

1 Laboratory Techniques for Investigating Speech Articulation 9
Maureen Stone

2 The Aerodynamics of Speech 39
Christine H. Shadle

3 Acoustic Phonetics 81
Jonathan Harrington

4 Investigating the Physiology of Laryngeal Structures 130
Hajime Hirose

Part II Biological Perspectives 153

5 Organic Variation of the Vocal Apparatus 155
Janet Mackenzie Beck

6 Brain Mechanisms Underlying Speech Motor Control 202
Hermann Ackermann and Wolfram Ziegler

7 Development of Neural Control of Orofacial Movements for Speech 251
Anne Smith

Part III Modeling Speech Production and Perception 297

8 Speech Acquisition 299
Barbara L. Davis

9 Coarticulation and Connected Speech Processes 316
Edda Farnetani and Daniel Recasens

10 Theories and Models of Speech Production 353
Anders Löfqvist

11 Voice Source Variation and Its Communicative Functions 378
Christer Gobl and Ailbhe Ní Chasaide

12 Articulatory–Acoustic Relations as the Basis of Distinctive Contrasts 424
Kenneth N. Stevens and Helen M. Hanson

13 Aspects of Auditory Processing Related to Speech Perception 454
Brian C. J. Moore

14 Cognitive Processes in Speech Perception 489
James M. Mc Queen and Anne Cutler

Part IV Linguistic Phonetics 521

15 The Prosody of Speech: Timing and Rhythm 523
Janet Fletcher

16 Tone and Intonation 603
Mary E. Beckman and Jennifer J. Venditti

17 The Relation between Phonetics and Phonology 653
John J. Ohala

18 Phonetic Notation 678
John H. Esling

19 Sociophonetics 703
Paul Foulkes, James M. Scobbie, and Dominic Watt

Part V Speech Technology 755

20 An Introduction to Signal Processing for Speech 757
Daniel P. W. Ellis

21 Speech Synthesis 781
Rolf Carlson and Björn Granström

22 Automatic Speech Recognition 804
Steve Renals and Simon King

Index 839

William J. Hardcastle is Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. He is the author of Physiology of Speech Production (1976) and Disorders of Fluency and their Effects on Communication (with P. Dalton, 1989).
John Laver is Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His publications include The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality (1980), Principles of Phonetics (1994), and The Gift of Speech (1996).
Fiona E. Gibbon is Head of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork in Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She is co-editor of Vowel Disorders (2002).