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A Course in Phonetics (with CD-ROM) | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Ladefoged
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 188280
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 310
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1413006884
Dewey Decimal Number: 414
EAN: 9781413006889
ASIN: 1413006884
Publication Date: June 24, 2005
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Master linguistics with A COURSE IN PHONETICS with accompanying CD-ROM! The hallmark text for the study of linguistics, A COURSE IN PHONETICS provides a broad overview of the branches of phonetics for students with no prior knowledge. Practicing what you have learned is easy with the CD-ROM that contains more than 4,000 audio files, including recordings of speech from southern and northern U.S. cities, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, New Zealand, other forms of English, and scores of other languages.
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 Linguistics March 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had to buy this book for my Intro to Linguistics class.
It's easy to read, and it has taught me the basics to phonetics.
good resource October 23, 2007
great introduction to phonetics, although some of the standard and typical presentations can be misleading when individual speech is analyzed and shows much more variation. he is more exact in this book at setting specific boundaries compared with some of his later books. a great resource to refer to later also with lots of basics, easy to read and understand, CD is helpful too
 MAGNIFICENT June 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Peter Ladefoged's Course in Phonetics covers the so-called science of speech (according to Professor Higgins)in every respect. Unlike many other texts on the field, this is no only meant to describe the phonological system of a language in particular or give you some background on general phonetics. This book really teaches you to become a phonetician! This is not just because of Ladefoged's imcomparable background in phonetics and physics (what a great scientist!), but also because Ladeofged himself acts like a motivator as he passes his own passion to the readers.
The interactive CD is awesome. You will be able to listen to the XX century's leading English phonetician Daniel Jones making his own cardinal vowels. There is also an invaluable x-ray short movie of different articulations, and believe me! It is really illuminating to have the chance to see that rather than beautifully designed drawings. Ladefoged himself will teach you by dictating and pronouncing a great number of words, nonsense, English and other languages.
I really recommend this book to whoever is interested or passionate about this discipline. Even though Prof. Ladefoged is not here with us anymore, this is an excellent - and for many of us the only one - chance to be taught by one of the greatest.
Good choice by my son's linguistics professor November 11, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
My son is taking his first linguistics course at NYU this semester and this textbook was required. He informs that the book is readable and understandable and is pleased that the professor chose it for the class.
i had to buy it for class. February 23, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm taking a phonetics and phonology class this semester, so the book was requried reading. Nevertheless, it proved to be very useful and readable, which was nice. The interactive CD-rom is the best part about, though I imagine that's what makes the book so expensive. For those of you who need the book but don't want to break the bank, the fourth edition is almost exactly the same, though without the CD.
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