Fundamentals of Phonetics: A Practical Guide for Students

by Larry H. Small

The new edition of Small's Fundamentals of Phonetics offers a refreshingly unique and thorough practice-based approach to learning the skills necessary for expert phonetic transcription of individuals with disordered speech. Emphasis is placed on the issues tied to linguisitic phonetics with an introduction to clinical phonetics, and issues involving dialectal variation of speech. The available audio CD enables readers to listen to examples and absorb additional information. This new edition offers more transcription exercises with examples of children with disordered speech, Arabic Influenced English and Russian Influenced English.

Genres: Linguistics, Textbooks, School, Nonfiction

374 pages, Paperback

First published November 12, 1998

Reviews

[Ken]

I had the pleasure of having Dr. Small as the professor for my phonetics class years ago. I couldn't have asked for a better text to learn phonetics with. Years later, while I don't do it all that often, I can transcribe speech with ease when needed. This is a fantastic book for anyone learning what can be a daunting and confusing subject.

[Susie]

Some of the examples in this book were inconsistent with sounds and many times was not consistent with the way the northeast speakers sound so I found it difficult at times to understand his text. Many times throughout the course, our professor told us to ignore his text and would correct errors from the readings.

[Cherish Brown]

(4☆ Would recommend)
To be honest, phonetics is not my strong suit. However, this book was very helpful. The practices that come with the book were a life saver.

[Kerianne]

good book

[Erin]

Practice exercises were extremely helpful.