Books in the Cambridge Studies in Speech Science and Communication series

How reliably can individuals be recognised by their voices? This volume clearly demonstrates that any valid theory of speaker recognition must integrate the approaches of a number of disciplines and it is itself an important step towards that integration.

This book presents an experimental-phonetic approach to the study of intonation, defined as the ensemble of pitch variations in speech. It gives a detailed explication of the analysis of intonation by means of the stylization method.

Coarticulation means the overlapping gestures which occur during the pronunciation of any sequence of speech sounds. The eighteen chapters of this book cover the experimental techniques used for investigating the phenomenon, the experimental findings to date, and the theoretical background.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the fields of neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology. Reflecting the dramatic changes that have taken place in the study of language disorders over the last decade, David Caplan's approach is firmly interdisciplinary, introducing concepts from the main contributing disciplines - neurology, linguistics, psychology and speech pathology.

Coarticulation means the overlapping gestures which occur during the pronunciation of any sequence of speech sounds. The eighteen chapters of this book cover the experimental techniques used for investigating the phenomenon, the experimental findings to date, and the theoretical background.

Patterns of Sounds describes the frequency and distributional patterns of the phonemic sounds in a large and representative sample of the world's languages. The results are based on UPSID, a computer file containing the phonemes of 317 languages selected on the basis of genetic diversity. The book contains nine chapters analysing the UPSID data, as well as fully labelled phoneme charts.