SECTION 1 Survey 1
1 The science of speech 3
The speech chain 3
Phonetics 5
Phonetics and linguistics 7
2 Making speech sounds 11
Speech and breathing 11
The larynx 13
The vocal tract above the larynx 14
Describing speech production 15
3 Classifying speech sounds 17
Vowels 18
Consonants 20
4 Tone and tone languages 25
Lexical and grammatical use of tone 26
Tone levels and contours 26
Tones and context 27
Tones and pitch-accents 28
5 Suprasegmentals 31
Stress and accent 31
Intonation 33
Rhythm 36
Other suprasegmental features 37
6 Acoustics of speech sounds 39
Acoustic waveforms 39
Acoustic and articulatory classification of speech sounds 42
Acoustics of suprasegmental features 46
7 Sounds in systems 47
Systems of sounds 48
Groups of sounds 50
8 Connected speech and coarticulation 53
Assimilation 53
Coarticulation 57
Elision 61
9 Variation 63
Regional variation 64
Social variation 65
Style variation 66
Age and variation 66
Choosing the speech to study 67
10 Conclusion 69
SECTION 2 Readings 71
SECTION 3 References 99
SECTION 4 Glossary 107