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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 16:55:48 +0000 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] 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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%