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This new (third) edition of a book first published already in 1995 (with a second edition dating from 1998) aims at giving basic knowledge for the description and analysis of speech sounds. The textbook adresses not only students of (foreign) languages and linguistics, but also students of logopaedics and speech therapy as well as those with a more technical background interested in automatic speech processing. Written at an introductory level, with a comfortable and easy style, the book comprises speech production, speech signal analysis and speech perception without attempting to deal with every single topic or to cover each topic in great detail. Thus the logic of the book’s structure seems to be self-evident. Preceded by an introductory chapter there are three chapters each dealing with one aspect of phonetics as derived from the communication process: articulatory phonetics (including phonetic transcription; chapter 2), acoustic phonetics (chapter 3), and auditory and perceptive phonetics (chapter 4). This is followed by a (rather scarce) bibliography containing some 60 titles and an index. So far the publicaton under review does not greatly differ from the first two editions (except for minor corrections and amendments of the text and a few newer items in the bibliography, published after 1998). What is really new is the addition of a CD-ROM with interactive explanations and exercises, regrettably restricted to articulatory phonetics and phonetic transcription for the time being. Before dealing with the benefits and shortcomings of this CD-ROM in more detail we will have a short glance at the four chapters of the textbook. Chapter 1 introduces the field of phonetics within the framework of linguistics, defining phonetics in a more restricted sense as beginning from the movements of the speaker’s articulatory organs and ending at the transformation of the mechanical input to nervous impulses in the listener’s ear. In a broader sense, however, the field of phonetics is said to include all the cognitive and neuropsychological activities of speaking and hearing, thus – rightly – qualifying phonetics not just as the science of anatomy and physiology of speaking and hearing, and of the physics of speech sounds, but as a part of the science of language (p. 20). Nevertheless, the textbook concentrates on phonetics in the above-mentioned narrower sense, supposedly as a matter of space and because the authors intended the book only to impart adequate knowledge of the phonic substance, on which the grid of phonology can be applied (p. 12). Even within these constraints the authors are aware of and draw the reader’s attention to the fact that observation and phonetic description of speech sounds must not be restricted to the analysis of idealized (hyperarticulated) utterances of isolated syllables or words under laboratory conditions, but rather have to be based on manifestations of spontaneous speech despite all technical and practical problems of collection, registration, and analysis of naturally spoken material (p. 26). Chapter 1 closes with a brief outlook to applications of phonetics beyond the domain of linguistics proper, as there are the assessment and therapy of language and speech disorders, forensic phonetics, text-to-speech systems, as well as speech and speaker recognition. Chapter 2 deals with articulatory phonetics and phonetic transcription. The first section of this chapter demonstrates the inadequacy of traditional spelling systems for phonetic purposes and the need for a phonetic alphabet to graphically represent speech sounds in a bi-unique manner. Consequently the full IPA chart (in the version of 1993) is reproduced

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