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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 16:55:48 +0000
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Subject: Announcement

Arnold is publishing 2 new undergraduate textbooks:
Phonetics: The Science of Speech, by Martin J Ball and Joan Rahilly
July 1999  c.256pp  PB 0 340 70010 6 c.£14.99  HB 0 340 70009 2  c.£40.00

and

Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles, by Paul Foulkes and 
Gerard Docherty
 August 1999  c.336pp  PB 0 340 70608 2  c.£16.99
CASS 0 340 74105 8  c.£14.99+VAT   CD 0 340 75952 6  c.£14.99+VAT

I would like to offer inspection copies (paperback editions only) to all 
lecturers teaching relevant courses with 12 students or more. If you wish to 
see a copy simply e-mail me ([log in to unmask]) with your name, 
college address, course details (including number of students). Please quote 
foneitks in your message.

Below is a little more information about the books:

Phonetics: The Science of Speech
In their comprehensive new introduction to phonetics, Ball and Rahilly offer 
a  detailed explanation of the process of speech production, from the 
anatomical initiation of sounds and their modification in the larynx, 
through to the final articulation of vowels and consonants in the oral and 
nasal tracts. This textbook is one of the few to give a balanced account of 
segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech, showing clearly that the 
communication chain is incomplete without accurate production of both 
individual speech sounds (segmental features) and aspects such as stress and 
intonation (suprasegmental features). Throughout the book the authors 
provide advice on transcription, primarily using the International Phonetic 
Alphabet (IPA). Students are expertly guided from basic attempts to record 
speech sounds on paper, to more refined accounts of phonetic detail in 
speech.

The authors go on to explain acoustic phonetics in a manner accessible both 
to new students in phonetics, and to those who wish to advance their 
knowledge of key pursuits in the area, including the sound spectrograph. 
They describe how speech waves can be measured, as well as considering how 
they are heard and decoded by listeners, discussing both physiological and 
neurological aspects of hearing an examining the methods of psychoacoustic 
experimentation. A range of instrumentation for studying speech production 
is also presented.

Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles
Accents and dialects are constantly undergoing small variations over time, 
but evidence shows that change may have become increasingly rapid in the 
past few decades.  Urban Voices presents one of the few recent surveys of 
this phonological variation and change in urban accents across Great Britain 
and Ireland.

Each of the 14 specially commissioned chapters is divided into two parts. 
The first provides a detailed description of accent features within one or 
more urban centres, including information on social and stylistic variation 
and ongoing change. In the second part a range of current theoretical and 
methodological issues are discussed. Some chapters present wholly new data 
based on fieldwork carried out specifically for inclusion in Urban Voices, 
while others summarise data from well-known research, up-dated and 
reanalysed in accordance with new findings.

Containing copious illustrative and pedagogic material, this textbook 
presents a clear pathway to state-of-the-art research for students of 
sociolinguistics, dialectology, phonetics, and phonology at advanced 
undergraduate and graduate level. In addition, the detailed descriptive data 
and the accompanying cassette constitute a valuable resource for students 
and teachers of English, clinicians and speech therapists, forensic 
phoneticians, researchers in speech recognition and speech synthesis, and 
actors.

Milly Neate
Product Manager - Humanities
Arnold > www.arnoldpublishers.com




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