Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780631232704
Year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 208


Description:
Phonetic Data Analysis examines the procedures involved in
describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic
techniques of experimental phonetics, most of them requiring little
more than a tape recorder, a video camera, and a computer.




Examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a
language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental
phonetics.


Written by Peter Ladefoged, one of the world?s leading
phoneticians.


Enables readers to work with a speaker in class or go out into
the field and make their own discoveries about how the sounds of a
language are made.


Provides full descriptions of techniques that are readily
available and do not require the resources of a major phonetics
laboratory.


Includes enlightening comments throughout about
Ladefoged?s own fieldwork experiences.