Sociophonetics
A Student's Guide
Edited by Marianna Di Paolo, Malcah Yaeger Dror
- Price: $47.95
- Binding/Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-0-415-49879-1
- Publish Date: October 25th 2010
- Imprint: Routledge
- Pages: 272 pages
Description
Sociophonetics: A Student’s Guide will provide a practical ‘how-to’ manual that will give students a clear understanding of the technical and theoretical advances in acoustic phonetics, speech perception, and recording technology which is essential for sociolinguistic research.
This book:
- covers the key methodological, technical and procedural information needed to undertake sociophonetic research
- includes contributions from renowned scholars as well as new researchers in the area
- incorporates exercises and projects in each chapter
- has a companion website that will guide students to on-line sources containing manuals or tutorials for specific tools.
Sociophonetics will be essential reading for students and researchers with interests in sociophonetics and for those undertaking research projects in applied linguistics.
Contents
Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Marianna Di Paolo and Malcah Yaeger-Dror Chapter 2 Field Methods: gathering data, creating a corpus, and reporting your work Marianna Di Paolo and Malcah Yaeger-Dror Chapter 3 Making a Field Recording Christopher Cieri Chapter 4 Transcription Margaret Maclagan and Jennifer Hay Chapter 5 Issues in Using Legacy Data Paulina Bounds, Naomi Palosaari, and William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. Chapter 6 Analyzing Stops Paul Foulkes, Gerard Docherty, and Mark Jones Chapter 7 Analyzing Liquids Eleanor Lawson, Jane Stuart-Smith, James M. Scobbie, Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Margaret Maclagan Chapter 8 Analyzing Vowels Marianna Di Paolo, Malcah Yaeger-Dror, and Alicia Beckford Wassink Chapter 9 More on Vowels: Plotting and Normalization Dominic Watt, Anne Fabricius and Tyler Kendall Chapter 10 Analyzing Prosody: Best Practices for the Analysis of Prosody Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Zsuzsanna Fagyal Chapter 11 Acoustical Analysis of Voice Quality for Sociophonetic Purposes John H. Esling and Jerold A. Edmondson Chapter 12 Experimental Speech Perception and Perceptual Dialectology Cynthia Clopper, Jen Hay, and Bartlomiej Plichta Chapter 13 Working with Children Ghada Khattab and Julie Roberts Chapter 14 Ascertaining Word Classes Betty S. Phillips Chapter 15 Checking for Reliability Cynthia G. Clopper Chapter 16 Statistical Analysis Jen Hay References
