Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics.

Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Fundamentals -- Chapter 1 Basic Acoustics and Acoustic Filters -- 1.1 The Sensation of Sound -- 1.2 The Propagation of Sound -- 1.3 Types of Sounds -- 1.3.1 Simple periodic waves -- 1.3.2 Complex periodic waves -- 1.3.3 Aperiodic waves -- 1.4 Acoustic Filters -- Recommended Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 2 The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production:Deriving Schwa -- 2.1 Voicing -- 2.2 Voicing Quanta -- 2.3 Vocal Tract Filtering -- 2.4 Pendulums,Standing Waves,and Vowel Formants -- 2.5 Discovering Nodes and Antinodes in an Acoustic Tube -- Recommended Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 3 Digital Signal Processing -- 3.1 Continuous versus Discrete Signals -- 3.2 Analog-to-Digital Conversion -- 3.2.1 Sampling -- 3.2.2 Quantization -- 3.3 Signal Analysis Methods -- 3.3.1 RMS amplitude -- 3.3.2 Fast Fourier transform (FFT) -- 3.3.3 Auto-correlation pitch tracking -- 3.3.4 Digital filters -- 3.3.5 Linear predictive coding (LPC) -- 3.3.6 Spectra and spectrograms -- Recommended Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 4 Basic Audition -- 4.1 Anatomy of the Peripheral Auditory System -- 4.2 The Auditory Sensation of Loudness -- 4.3 Frequency Response of the Auditory System -- 4.4 Saturation and Masking -- 4.5 Auditory Representations -- Recommended Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 5 Speech Perception -- 5.1 Auditory Ability Shapes Speech Perception -- 5.2 Phonetic Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception -- 5.2.1 Categorical perception -- 5.2.2 Phonetic coherence -- 5.3 Linguistic Knowledge Shapes Speech Perception -- 5.4 Perceptual Similarity -- 5.4.1 Maps from distances -- 5.4.2 The perceptual map of fricatives -- Recommended Reading -- Exercises -- Part II Speech Analysis -- Chapter 6 Vowel s -- 6.1 Tube Models of Vowel Production -- 6.2 Perturbation Theory.

6.3 "Preferred " Vowels - Quantal Theory and Adaptive Dispersion -- 6.4 Vowel Formants and the Acoustic Vowel Space -- 6.6 Cross-linguistic Vowel Perception -- Recommended Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 7 Fricatives -- 7.1 Turbulence -- 7.2 Place of Articulation in Fricatives -- 7.3 Quantal Theory and Fricatives -- 7.4 Fricative Auditory Spectra -- 7.5 Dimensions of Fricative Perception -- Recommended Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 8 Stops and Affricates -- 8.1 Source Functions for Stops and Affricates -- 8.1.1 Phonation types -- 8.1.2 Sound sources in stops and affricates -- 8.2 Vocal Tract Filter Functions in Stops -- 8.3 Affricates -- 8.4 Auditory Properties of Stops -- 8.5 Stop Perception in Different Vowel Contexts -- Recommended Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 9 Nasals and Laterals -- 9.1 Bandwidth -- 9.2 Nasal Stops -- 9.3 Laterals -- 9.4 Nasalization -- 9.5 Nasal Consonant Perception -- Recommended Reading -- Exercises -- References -- Answers to Selected Short-answer Questions -- Index.

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