Articulatory Phonetics: Tools for Analyzing the World's Languages, 4th Edition

This textbook is the fourth edition of the revision and expansion of A Manual for Articulatory Phonetics, compiled by Rick Floyd in 1986. It includes many other people's materials from articulatory phonetics courses as taught for over sixty years in the training schools of SIL International. It also includes much information from sources outside of SIL.

It is written in an informal, personal style and is a practical book for teachers and students alike. Most chapters begin with a statement of goals and conclude with a list of key concepts and exercises. Examples, tables, and explanatory figures are distributed liberally throughout.

This book is oriented primarily towards native speakers of American English, particularly with reference to examples used to guide pronunciation of new sounds. However, most of the information included should be profitable to students regardless of their native language.

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is used for the phonetic transcription, but the equivalent Americanist symbols are also given in order to equip the student to use other linguists' materials, regardless of which system they use to transcribe their data.

Table of Contents

1. Sound Identification
2. Face Diagrams
3. Fricatives
4. Stops
5. Vowels
6. Nasals
7. More Vowels
8. Tracking
9. Sibilants
10. Uses of Pitch Variation
11. Stress
12. Nasalized Vowels
13. Laterals
14. Length
15. Voiceless Vowels
16. Affricates
17. Glottal Consonants
18. Central Approximants
19. Review Exercises and Tables (I)
20. Palatal and Uvular Consonants
21. Syllabic Consonants and Prenasalization
22. Transition and Release of Consonants
23. Speech Styles
24. Fronting and Retroflexion
25. Ejectives
26. Flaps and Trills
27. States of the Glottis
28. Implosives
29. Breathy Stops and Affricates
30. Pharyngeal and Epiglottal Consonants
31. Secondary Articulations
32. Consonant Clusters, Vowel Clusters, and Vowel Glides
33. Double Articulations
34. Tongue Root Placement and Vowels
35. Fortis and Lenis Consonants; Controlled and Ballistic Syllables
36. Clicks
37. Palatography
38. Miscellaneous Final Details
39. Review Exercises and Tables (II)