This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor control, based primarily on evidence from speech timing. It engages wit

Comprehensive textbook on phonetics, with examples from over 500 languages.

Phonetics - the study and classification of speech sounds - is a major sub-discipline of linguistics. Bringing together a team of internationally renowned phone

This introductory textbook in general phonetics was first published in 1976. It will be of use to all with an interest in the nature and working of the sound su

Phonology - the study of how the sounds of speech are represented in our minds - is one of the core areas of linguistic theory, and is central to the study of h