From the Publisher
“The book brings a practical approach to understanding spoken English in a compelling and lucid way. It is filled with simple, hands-on suggestions for engaging with your own speech and testing a wide range of ideas in phonetics and phonology. Its presentation of intonation and prosody is exciting and masterful. A must for any students wishing to gain a rapid, broad-ranging and very accessible understanding of how sounds are put to use in speech communication.” (Jonathan Harrington, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)
“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)
