Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Experimental phonetics: laboratory techniques for investigating speech articulation / Maureen Stone -- The aerodynamics of speech / Christine H. Shadle -- Acoustic phonetics / Jonathan Harrington -- Investigating the physiology of laryngeal structures / Hajime Hirose -- Part II. Biological Perspectives: Organic variation of the vocal apparatus / Janet Mackenzie Beck -- Brain mechanisms underlying speech motor control / Hermann Ackermann and Wolfram Ziegler -- Development of neural control of orofacial movements for speech / Anne Smith -- Part III. Modelling Speech Production and Perception: Speech acquisition / Barbara Davis -- Coarticulation and connected speech processes / Edda Farnetani and Daniel Recasens -- Theories and models of speech production / Anders Löfqvist -- Voice source variation and its communicative functions / Christer Gobl and Ailbhe Ní Chasaide -- Articulatory-acoustic relations as the basis of distinctive contrasts / Kenneth N. Stevens and Helen M. Hanson -- Aspects of auditory processing related to speech perception / Brian C.J. Moore -- Cognitive processes in speech perception / James M. McQueen and Anne Cutler -- Part IV. Linguistic Phonetics: The prosody of speech: timing and rhythm / Janet Fletcher -- Tone and intonation / Mary E. Beckman and Jennifer J. Venditti -- The relation between phonetics and phonology / John Ohala -- Phonetic notation / John H. Esling -- Sociophonetics / Paul Foulkes, James M. Scobbie and Dominic Watt -- Part V. Speech Technology: An introduction to signal processing for speech / Daniel Ellis -- Speech synthesis / Rolf Carlson and Björn Granström -- Automatic speech recognition / Steve Renals and Simon King -- References -- Index.