Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics

Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Keith
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Subjects:
Hearing.
Phonetics, Acoustic.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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