The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences

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Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of<i>The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences</i> provides an authoritative account of the key topics in both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication, written by an international team of leading scholars and practitioners.<ul><li>Combines new and influential research, along with articulate overviews of the key topics in theoretical and applied areas of speech communication</li><li>Accessibly structured into five major sections covering: experimental phonetics; biological perspectives; modelling speech production and perception; linguistic phonetics; and speech technology</li><li>Includes nine entirely new chapters on topics such as phonetic notation and sociophonetics, speech technology, biological perspectives, and prosody</li><li>A streamlined and re-oriented structure brings all contributions up-to-date with the latest research, whilst maintaining the features that made the first edition so useful</li></ul>

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<p><b>William J. Hardcastle</b> 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<i>Physiology of Speech Production</i> (1976) and<i>Disorders of Fluency and their Effects on Communication</i> (with P. Dalton, 1989).<p><b>John Laver</b> 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<i>The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality</i> (1980),<i>Principles of Phonetics</i> (1994), and<i>The Gift of Speech</i> (1996).<p><b>Fiona E. Gibbon</b> 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<i>Vowel Disorders</i> (2002).

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