Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception

Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics

by Henning Reetz, Allard Jongman

Companion website, featuring additional resources such as sound files, can be found Providing a comprehensive overview of the four primary areas of phonetics, Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception is an ideal guide to the complete study of speech and sound.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction, Reference

330 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2008

Reviews

[Celina Del Vecchio · Rating 2 out of 5]

I actually finished this several days ago but kept forgetting to update… whoopsie!

It was fine… I used the pdf version and the font was so tiny and blurry and not spaced properly. Honestly it was a tough read solely for trying to figure out what the words on the page were.

It explained concepts fine I guess. I think this book assumes the reader has way more knowledge on this topic than I did because I noticed some gaps in my learning that I had to go supplement myself via YouTube videos and other books. The examples they used were sometimes extensive and made me more confused.

Overall, it got the job done it just wasn’t as user friendly as I would’ve liked. Womp womp.

[Jonathan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Boring boring boring.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thorough, fairly accessibly, moderately well written. Sometimes the examples get a little out of hand - it would be easier to describe the action of the wave itself than to describe some kind of traditional German party behavior that resembles it. I had a lot of fun moments where I finally understood what goes on physically in everyday acoustic phenomenon while reading. Anyhow, I also learned that I don't particularly like phonetics while reading this book. So my opinion should be taken with that grain of salt.