Speech and Voice Science

Additional Book Details

Speech and Voice Science, Third Edition is the only textbook to provide comprehensive and detailed information on both voice source and vocal tract contributions to speech production. Because the writing style is user-friendly for all levels of students, instructors report using this book for a wide variety of courses, including undergraduate and graduate courses in acoustic phonetics, speech science, instrumentation, and voice disorders. Heavily revised and updated, this third edition offers multiple new resources for instructors and students to enhance classroom learning and active student participation. At the same time, this revised textbook provides flexibility to allow instructors to construct a classroom learning experience that best suits their course objectives.

Key Features

A highly readable writing style that allows students to grasp difficult concepts
Heavily illustrated to enhance information provided in the text
Each chapter includes section study questions to help students make sure that they are focusing on key concepts
Sidebars throughout the text provide a deeper dive into related topics

New to the Third Edition

A newly designed two-color interior provides increased readability
Seven Clinical cases are now included throughout the book to help students apply speech science principles to clinical practice
A new chapter addresses Speech Prosody with updated and expanded coverage of the acoustic properties that contribute to stress, prominence, and speech rhythm and the clinical relevance of acoustic measurement of prosody
A new chapter on Instrumentation covers basic information on digital data acquisition, microphones, and recording for clinical and research purposes
Reorganization of introductory material provides a new chapter on the Physics of Motion to prepare students to learn about the acoustics of sound waves
Forty-nine revised spectrogram figures provide increased clarity of key acoustic features of vowels and consonants