The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics

• the history and scope of techniques used, including speech synthesis, vocal tract imaging techniques, and obtaining information on under-researched languages from language archives;

• the physiological bases of speech and hearing, including auditory, articulatory, and neural explanations of hearing, speech, and language processes;

• theories and models of speech perception and production related to the processing of consonants, vowels, prosody, tone, and intonation;

• linguistic phonetics, with discussions of the phonetics-phonology interface, sound change, second language acquisition, sociophonetics, and second language teaching research;

• applications and extensions, including phonetics and gender, clinical phonetics, and forensic phonetics.

The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics will be indispensable reading for students and practitioners in the fields of speech, language, linguistics and hearing sciences.