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course in phonetics 5th edition peter ladefoged pdf
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a course in phonetics 5th edition peter ladefoged pdf
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course in phonetics 5th edition peter ladefoged pdf
07-04-2017, 03:24 PM
Peter Ladefoged 's A COURSE ON PHONETICS, international edition remains the authoritative text for the study of phonetics. Retaining Ladefoged's writing style for students, Sixth Edition introduces concepts of speech production, describes speech in acoustic terms, and teaches practical phonetic skills including IPA transcription. Expanded sections on acoustic phonetics and speech engine control keep instructors up-to-date and help students use tools for digital inspection and speech manipulation. Numerous updates include magnetic resonance imaging of the vocal pathways. The included CD-ROM contains more than 4,000 audio files from almost 100 languages, as well as maps with sounds from the languages in which they are spoken. The CD also contains material for each chapter, such as recordings of the tables, many examples and exercises.
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• The CD included in the text has more than 4,000 recordings of English and other languages, maps of linguistic areas, exercises and tables in the text, and so on. Demonstrations of phonetic performance exercises are provided, and most exercises can be downloaded and printed. Also includes recordings of British and American English for transcription exercises; Speech samples for cities in the South (USA) and North (United States); And recordings from London, Edinburgh, Dublin, New Zealand and other forms of English. Extras on the CD include map indexes and recordings of API sounds and many other languages.
• This text provides an overview of phonetics for students without previous knowledge.
• A COURSE IN PHONETICS is a complete and direct explanation of the main aspects of English phonetics and the main characteristics of the sounds of the world's languages by two of the main phonetics in the world.
• Students will appreciate the clear introduction to the main concepts of articulatory phonetics, which analyzes speech as a sequence of gestures of tongue, lips and other vocal organs in combination with airflow.
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