Introducing Phonetic Science
by Michael Ashby, John Maidment · Michael Ashby & John Maidment
Cambridge textbook that builds phonetic skills from scratch: articulatory description, transcription conventions, speech acoustics, hearing and perception, and instrumental analysis. After it you can describe and transcribe speech sounds and read basic acoustic displays.
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