{"id":1528,"date":"2011-04-22T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2011-04-04T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T08:08:09","slug":"1528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"The handbook of phonetic sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"
The handbook of phonetic sciences<\/strong>. 2nd edn. Ed. by William J. Hardcastle<\/strong>, John Laver<\/strong>, and Fiona E. Gibbon<\/strong>. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. Pp xii, 870. ISBN 9781405145909<\/a>. $199.95 (Hb).<\/div>\n

Reviewed by Anish Koshy<\/strong><\/a>, The English and Foreign Languages University, India<\/em><\/p>\n

This volume contains twenty-two chapters organized into five major sections. It sees the addition of ten new chapters while the organizational scheme of the first edition is retained.<\/p>\n

Part 1, \u2018Experimental phonetics\u2019, has four chapters. Maureen Stone<\/strong> gives an overview of the role of laboratory instruments in the study of speech disorders and speech processing applications. While Christine H. Shadle<\/strong> considers various aerodynamically distinct oral tract behaviors and the methods of measuring them, Hajime Hirose<\/strong> studies the functions of laryngeal structures and the basic laryngeal adjustments required for different phonetic conditions. Jonathan Harrington<\/strong> takes up a detailed analysis of the acoustic characteristics of three major categories of sounds.<\/p>\n

Part 2, \u2018Biological perspectives\u2019, has three chapters. Janet Mackenzie Beck<\/strong> explores organic variation in speech performance due to differences in shape and proportion of vocal organs. Hermann Ackermann<\/strong> and Wolfram Ziegler<\/strong> review characteristics of primate and human brains with reference to human language. Anne Smith<\/strong> discusses neural processes and issues of interface, the role of feedback, and neuroplasticity.<\/p>\n

Part 3, \u2018Modelling speech production and perception\u2019, is the largest section in the handbook. Barbara L. Davis<\/strong> gives an overview of the formalist, structuralist, cognitive science, and auditory-perceptual perspectives on speech acquisition. Edda Farnetani<\/strong> and Daniel Recasens<\/strong> explore coarticulation and connected speech processes from various theoretical perspectives. Anders L\u00f6fqvist<\/strong> discusses the problems of coordination and motor control in motor systems in speech production. Christer Gobl<\/strong> and Ailbhe N\u00ed Chasaide<\/strong> deal with acoustic aspects of phonation and its exploitation in the context of speech communication. Kenneth N. Stevens<\/strong> and Helen M. Hanson<\/strong> review the quantal\/enhancement theory and its relationship to the notion of distinctive features. Brian C. J. Moore<\/strong> introduces aspects of auditory processing. James M. McQueen<\/strong> and Anne Cutler<\/strong> conclude this section by focusing on the cognitive aspects of speech perception in terms of lexical and pre-lexical processing.<\/p>\n

Part 4, \u2018Linguistic phonetics\u2019, has five chapters. Janet Fletcher<\/strong> reviews temporal aspects of prosody and the rhythmic dimension of speech. Mary E. Beckman<\/strong> and Jennifer J. Venditti <\/strong>discuss functional aspects and establish parameters with which to study pitch change. John J. Ohala<\/strong> reviews the historical evolution of phonetics and phonology, and argues for an integration of the two fields. Tracing the development of the international phonetic alphabet notation, John H. Esling<\/strong> presents important challenges and revisions to the system. Paul Foulkes<\/strong>, James M. Scobbie<\/strong>, and Dominic Watt<\/strong> explore sociophonetics by seeking to explain socially structured variation in speech.<\/p>\n

Part 5, \u2018Speech technology\u2019, has three chapters. Daniel P. W. Ellis<\/strong> discusses sound-filtering and the Fourier analysis and spectrographic representation of speech signal. Rolf Carlson<\/strong> and Bj\u00f6rn Granstr\u00f6m<\/strong> survey text-to-speech synthesizing systems, discussing current trends like multimodal and multilingual synthesis. Steve Renals <\/strong>and Simon King<\/strong> conclude this section by reviewing techniques, models, and algorithms used in automatic speech recognition research.<\/p>\n

This volume succeeds in maintaining its multidisciplinary orientation with exhaustive discussions of current techniques, experimental approaches, and theories used in the various sub-fields, while also standing as a testimony to the highly productive and ever-expanding nature of the discipline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The handbook of phonetic sciences. 2nd edn. Ed. by William J. Hardcastle, John Laver, and Fiona E. Gibbon. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. Pp xii, 870. ISBN 9781405145909. $199.95 (Hb). Reviewed by Anish Koshy, The English and Foreign Languages University, India This volume contains twenty-two chapters organized into five major sections. It sees the addition of ten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}