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ОглавлениеForeword
I wrote this book to share my passion for phonetics with students, colleagues, and anyone else wanting to know more about the fascinating applications of the speech sciences. It is designed to appeal to students with little or no background in linguistics or phonetics. In my experience, beginning students appreciate an overview of the field to help them decide which sub‐areas they find most interesting and which ones they might choose to pursue in more advanced studies. The content is based on an introductory course called “The Science of Speech” that I developed and have taught at Simon Fraser University for over a decade. The course has been popular with students, but has kept me very busy. Each semester, I've changed the material to keep up with a constant stream of new research findings and to highlight fascinating news stories that draw the public eye to phonetics. The result of this constant updating is that nearly half the sources I've cited here had not even been published at the time I first taught the course.
How to use this book
The content is organized into three parts. Part I: What Is Speech? is designed to be as succinct as possible, serving as an outline of the essentials of phonetics. It introduces speech anatomy, along with the major technical terms used in speech description. Part II: Speech as a Human Phenomenon covers the origins of speech, aspects of acquisition and change from the pre‐natal stage to old age, and diseases and disorders that hamper speech's functioning. Part III: Applying Phonetics, comprising well over half the book, surveys applications in such diverse fields as education, the arts, forensics, and business. I have arranged the material so that the chapters in Parts II and III can be read in almost any order. Key concepts are explained within their relevant contexts, though occasionally the reader is referred to other sections for more details. Terms highlighted in SMALL CAPS are defined in the Glossary at the end of the book. For those with no background in linguistics, I recommend reading Part I before moving on to the later material. Finally, the accompanying APSSEL website features extensive additional information, including links to sources that readers will find informative and intriguing.
