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Speech Sounds

A Pictorial Guide to Typical and Atypical Speech

Sadanand Singh author Sharynne McLeod author

Format:Set / collection

Publisher:Plural Publishing Inc

Published:1st Nov '08

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This new text is a resource that is unrivaled among phonetics or speech science books, and it sets a standard for the use of technology to reveal the essential nature of the sounds that are the substance of speech communication. --From the Foreword by Ray D. Kent, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison Speech Sounds contains maps of the mouth. As an atlas is a collection of maps in book form; so this book contains a collection of images or maps that have captured different aspects of the production of the consonants and vowels of English. As an atlas highlights topographies and landmarks, this book highlights relevant articulatory and acoustic aspects for the production for each English speech sound. Each chapter profiles a different English consonant or vowel. There are 24 chapters to describe each English consonant and 11 chapters to describe most English vowels and diphthongs. Analytic comments are presented for each chapter. These comments focus on key dimensions of speech production and speech acoustics that differentiate one speech sound from another.Within each chapter there are at least six different representations for the profiled speech sound organised according to static and dynamic representations. The static representations include: a photograph of the lower portion of the face, a schematic drawing of tongue position, an ultrasound image of the tongue, and electropalatographic images of tongue/palate contact. Dynamic representations profile words containing each speech sound and include a filmstrip, sound spectrogram, and continuous electropalatographic frames of tongue/palate contact. For each of the lingual consonants, multiple images demonstrating inter- and intra-speaker variability are also included. These images have been compiled from a comprehensive research project (McLeod, 2003) of eight typical English adults' productions of lingual speech sounds in word-initial and word-final contexts within five vowel environments.An important feature of Speech Sounds is that data from an extensive range of research papers have been assembled to demonstrate similarities and differences between productions of speech sounds by adults and children, speakers of different English dialects, speakers of languages other than English and people with impaired speech. Images from research papers have been redrawn using the same template so that extensive comparisons can be made.E PG Images from an extensive range of characteristics of people are found within Atlas of Speech...

Sarah Braithwaite, NHS Tower Hamlets, Speech and Language Therapy in Practice magazine, (Spring 2011): "Each English sound is described and pictured in a photograph, schematic diagram, ultrasound image and EPG frame. The sequence of producing the sound, in a range of word positions, is discussed, as is the intra- and inter- speaker variability of each sound. This varies in detail considerably, sometimes covering a range of client groups and languages. This detailed book would be useful for students, for clinicians building a clear picture of a target sound and therapists working with children with complex speech sound disorders."

ISBN: 9781597561068

Dimensions: 279mm x 216mm x 23mm

Weight: 907g

359 pages