William J. Hardcastle is Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. He is the author of Physiology of Speech Production (1976) and Disorders of Fluency and their Effects on Communication (with P. Dalton, 1989).

John Laver is Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His publications include The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality (1980), Principles of Phonetics (1994), and The Gift of Speech (1996).

Fiona E. Gibbon is Head of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork in Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She is co-editor of Vowel Disorders (2002).

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences provides an authoritative account of the key topics in both theoretical and applied areas of speech communication, written by an international team of leading scholars and practitioners.
* Combines new and influential research, along with articulate overviews of the key topics in theoretical and applied areas of speech communication
* Accessibly structured into five major sections covering: experimental phonetics; biological perspectives; modelling speech production and perception; linguistic phonetics; and speech technology
* Includes nine entirely new chapters on topics such as phonetic notation and sociophonetics, speech technology, biological perspectives, and prosody
* A streamlined and re-oriented structure brings all contributions up-to-date with the latest research, whilst maintaining the features that made the first edition so useful

List of contributors ix
Preface to the Second Edition xii
Introduction 1
Part I Experimental Phonetics 7
1 Laboratory Techniques for Investigating Speech Articulation 9
Maureen Stone
2 The Aerodynamics of Speech 39
Christine H. Shadle
3 Acoustic Phonetics 81
Jonathan Harrington
4 Investigating the Physiology of Laryngeal Structures 130
Hajime Hirose
Part II Biological Perspectives 153
5 Organic Variation of the Vocal Apparatus 155
Janet Mackenzie Beck
6 Brain Mechanisms Underlying Speech Motor Control 202
Hermann Ackermann and Wolfram Ziegler
7 Development of Neural Control of Orofacial Movements for Speech 251
Anne Smith
Part III Modeling Speech Production and Perception 297
8 Speech Acquisition 299
Barbara L. Davis
9 Coarticulation and Connected Speech Processes 316
Edda Farnetani and Daniel Recasens
10 Theories and Models of Speech Production 353
Anders Löfqvist
11 Voice Source Variation and Its Communicative Functions 378
Christer Gobl and Ailbhe Ní Chasaide
12 Articulatory-Acoustic Relations as the Basis of Distinctive Contrasts 424
Kenneth N. Stevens and Helen M. Hanson
13 Aspects of Auditory Processing Related to Speech Perception 454
Brian C. J. Moore
14 Cognitive Processes in Speech Perception 489
James M. McQueen and Anne Cutler
Part IV Linguistic Phonetics 521
15 The Prosody of Speech: Timing and Rhythm 523
Janet Fletcher
16 Tone and Intonation 603
Mary E. Beckman and Jennifer J. Venditti
17 The Relation between Phonetics and Phonology 653
John J. Ohala
18 Phonetic Notation 678
John H. Esling
19 Sociophonetics 703
Paul Foulkes, James M. Scobbie, and Dominic Watt
Part V Speech Technology 755
20 An Introduction to Signal Processing for Speech 757
Daniel P. W. Ellis
21 Speech Synthesis 781
Rolf Carlson and Björn Granström
22 Automatic Speech Recognition 804
Steve Renals and Simon King
Index 839