The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences

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>