Speech Production and Perception

This book develops a framework for a fully explanatory theory of speech production integrating with speech perception. Emphasis is placed on the difference between static models (primarily descriptive) and dynamic models that attempt to show how the basic linguistics and phonetics are related in an actual human speaker/listener.

Speech Production and Perception is aimed at intermediate and advanced students of linguistics and phonetics or those with applications in mind studying or researching phonetics and phonology, psychology, speech technology or language acquisition and pathology. Linguistics and phonetics have established a firm foundation which the authors review critically with a view to developing an extended and integrated model of production and perception usable not just for theoretical work in the core discipline but explicitly for building applications. Such applications are seen as drawing on a common core of material, and as such are able to be compared with one another and hence incorporate the wide range of experience available among practitioners. The book will be useful in courses in these areas as well as in core linguistics.

Mark Tatham is Professor of Linguistics at Essex University. Katherine Morton is at the Department of Linguistics, University of Essex.