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).

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