Overview
- The first introductory textbook to incorporate Praat freeware
- Takes a highly interactive and engaging approach to phonetics and phonology
- Contains ideas and guidelines for mini research projects which explore students' own speaking patterns
- Suitable for self-directed study or in-class use, depending on the instructor's preferences
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Combining coverage of the key concepts and tools within phonetics and phonology with a systematic introduction to Praat, this textbook provides a lively and engaging 'way in' to the discipline. The author first covers the fundamentals of the articulatory and acoustic aspects of speech and introduces Praat as the main tool for examining and visualising speech. Next, the unit of analysis is gradually expanded (from syllables to words to turns and dialogues) and excerpts of real dialogues exemplify the core concepts for discovering how speech works. The final part of the book brings all the concepts and notions together with commentaries to the transcription of several short excerpts of dialogues. This book will be essential reading for students on undergraduate courses in phonetics and phonology.
Reviews
“Praat is today the most widely used program for the automatic analysis of speech. The software is extensively documented but does not provide the basic knowledge of phonetics and phonology needed to use it efficiently. The first book in English to cover both Praat and the fields of phonetics and phonology, this will be an extremely valuable resource for the many thousands of Praat-users who do not have a solid background in speech sciences.” (DanielHirst, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) & Aix-Marseille University, France)
“A wealth of practical hands-on activities and follow-up commentaries guide the reader toward their own discoveries and understanding the foundations that provide for our ability to communicate in English in its true form as a spoken language. The phonetic analyses make the book valuable for anyone interested in speech and its relation to language in general. This includes all speakers of English! Moreover, the book appears to be excellent also for self-guided and distance-based learning.” (Martti Vainio, University of Helsinki, Finland)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Štefan Beňuš is Assistant Professor at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. He completed his PhD at New York University and has previously worked at Columbia University and Brown University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Investigating Spoken English
Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide to Phonetics and Phonology Using Praat
Authors: Štefan Beňuš
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54349-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54348-8Published: 18 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54349-5Published: 17 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 272
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Phonology and Phonetics, Applied Linguistics, Language Education, English