Phonetic Data Analysis
An Introduction to Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques
1. Edition August 2003
210 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Phonetic Data Analysis examines the procedures involved in
describing the sounds of a language and illustrates the basic
techniques of experimental phonetics, most of them requiring little
more than a tape recorder, a video camera, and a computer.
* * Examines the procedures involved in describing the sounds of a
language and illustrates the basic techniques of experimental
phonetics.
* Written by Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading
phoneticians.
* Enables readers to work with a speaker in class or go out into
the field and make their own discoveries about how the sounds of a
language are made.
* Provides full descriptions of techniques that are readily
available and do not require the resources of a major phonetics
laboratory.
* Includes enlightening comments throughout about
Ladefoged's own fieldwork experiences.
Acknowledgments.
1. Recording The Sounds Of A Language:.
Deciding What To Record.
Finding Speakers.
Recording Systems.
Making A Recording.
Digital Recording.
Listening To Recordings.
Field Notes.
Instrumental Phonetic Techniques.
2. Finding The Places Of Articulation:.
Still And Video Photography.
Basic Palatography.
More Elaborate Palatography.
Electropalatography.
Further Reading.
3. Aerodynamic Investigations:.
Recording Air Pressure And Airflow.
Measuring Air Pressure And Airflow.
Interpreting Aerodynamic Records.
Quantifying Nasalization.
Phonation Types.
Electroglottography.
Further Reading.
4. Pitch, Loudness And Length:.
Pitch Analysis.
Interpreting Pitch Curves.
Loudness, Intensity And Stress.
Waveforms And The Measurement Of Duration.
Further Reading.
5. Characterizing Vowels:.
Sound Spectrograms.
Spectra.
Vowel Charts.
Nasalized Vowels.
Further Reading.
6. Acoustic Analysis Of Consonants:.
Waveforms, Spectrograms And Duration Measurements.
Spectral Characteristics Of Nasals, Laterals, Approximants And
Trills.
Fricatives And Stop Bursts.
Spectrograms And Place Of Articulation.
Spectrograms And Articulatory Movements.
Further Reading.
7. Acoustic Analysis Of Phonation Types:.
Waveforms Of Different Glottal States.
Spectral Characteristics Of Phonation Types.
Further Reading.
8. Coda:.
A General Purpose Phonetics Laboratory.
More Elaborate Instrumental Phonetic Techniques.
Saying Goodbye To Fieldwork.
Index.
perhaps without knowing it, and one that will make us wonder how we
ever did without it. I look forward to recommending it to anyone
undertaking an instrumental phonetic investigation." Nina
Grønnum, University of Copenhagen
"Phonetic Data Analysis is one of the most useful
linguistics books written in the last 25 years. With his trademark
clarity of thought and expression, Peter Ladefoged has written a
book that is sure to be a classic. Every field linguist should own
a copy of this book. I plan to carry it with me and follow its
suggestions in all my future field research in the Amazon." Dan
Everett, University of Manchester
"Peter Ladefoged is widely acknowledged as the world's leading
phonetician. I warmly recommend this unique and remarkable new book
to students and professionals interested in phonetic fieldwork or
experimental phonetics. It is deeply practical and very easy to
understand; it is also full of illuminating personal experience
from a lifetime of investigating hundreds of languages in every
inhabited continent." John Laver, Queen Margaret University
College, Edinburgh
"This is a very useful and personal book. Peter Ladefoged brings
us along for a phonetic field trip where serious research is always
interspersed with the joy of getting to know one another. This book
will show you how to make your own palatography mirrors (ask a
mirror-maker for help!) and how doing phonetics really well can
make for a fascinating life." Keith Johnson, Ohio State
University
