Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Phonetics 7
Chapter 1: Understanding the A-B-Cs of Phonetics 9
Chapter 2: The Lowdown on the Science of Speech Sounds 15
Chapter 3: Meeting the IPA: Your New Secret Code 37
Chapter 4: Producing Speech: The How-To 51
Chapter 5: Classifying Speech Sounds: Your Gateway to Phonology 73
Part II: Speculating about English Speech Sounds 91
Chapter 6: Sounding Out English Consonants 93
Chapter 7: Sounding Out English Vowels 107
Chapter 8: Getting Narrow with Phonology 123
Chapter 9: Perusing the Phonological Rules of English 131
Chapter 10: Grasping the Melody of Language 145
Chapter 11: Marking Melody in Your Transcription 157
Part III: Having a Blast: Sound, Waveforms, and Speech Movement 169
Chapter 12: Making Waves: An Overview of Sound 171
Chapter 13: Reading a Sound Spectrogram 191
Chapter 14: Confi rming That You Just Said What I Thought You Said 219
Part IV: Going Global with Phonetics 235
Chapter 15: Exploring Different Speech Sources 237
Chapter 16: Visiting Other Places, Other Manners 253
Chapter 17: Coming from the Mouths of Babes 277
Chapter 18: Accentuating Accents 291
Chapter 19: Working with Broken Speech 315
Part V: The Part of Tens 333
Chapter 20: Ten Common Mistakes That Beginning Phoneticians Make and How to Avoid Them 335
Chapter 21: Debunking Ten Myths about Various English Accents 341
Index 347
