phonetics: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

D. Abercrombie, Elements of General Phonetics (1967), a readable survey of selected topics; P. Ladefoged, A Course in Phonetics (1975), a foundation in linguistic phonetics; K.L. Pike, Phonetics (1943), and P. Ladefoged, Preliminaries to Linguistic Phonetics (1971), critical analyses of phonetic theory; R. Jakobson, C.G.M. Fant, and M. Halle, Preliminaries to Speech Analysis (1952), the first major account of distinctive feature theory; N. Chomsky and M. Halle, The Sound Pattern of English (1968), a comprehensive description of English phonology; P. Ladefoged, Elements of Acoustic Phonetics (1962), an introduction to the physics of speech; I. Lehiste (comp.), Readings in Acoustic Phonetics (1967), a collection of major articles; B. Malmberg (ed.), Manual of Phonetics (1968), authoritative chapters on many aspects of phonetics. Acoustic aspects of speech production are also treated in Dennis B. Fry, The Physics of Speech (1979); J.M. Pickett, The Sounds of Speech Communication (1980); Richard M. Warren, Auditory Perception (1982). David Chrystal, A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (1981), covers main topics in articulatory and acoustic phonetics. See also recent issues of these journals: American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) Journal (monthly); and Journal of Speech and Hearing Research (quarterly).

Article Contributors

Primary Contributors

  • Peter N. Ladefoged
  • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
    Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors.

Other Encyclopedia Britannica Contributors

Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: Columbia University - Department of Compuer Science - Phonetics (PDF). Oct 28, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Acoustic and auditory phonetics: the adaptive design of speech sound systems. Apr 11, 2026
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Psychology - Understanding the Phonetic Characteristics of Speech Under Uncertainty—Implications of the Representation of Linguistic Knowledge in Learning and Processing. Aug 26, 2025
Add new Web site: Al-Mustaqbal University - English Phonetics: The Sounds of English Language (PDF). Jun 03, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Phonetic Possibility and Modal Logic (PDF). Mar 02, 2025
Add new Web site: Columbia University - Department of Compuer Science - Phonetics (PDF). Jan 17, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Dec 07, 2024
Add new Web site: Stanford University - Phonetics. Oct 30, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Sheffield - Phonetics. Sep 21, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - The Phonetics and Phonology of some Syllabic Consonants in Southern British English (PDF). Jul 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research - Brief Difference Between Phonemics and Phonetics. May 03, 2024
Add new Web site: Stanford University - Phonetics. Mar 08, 2024
Add new Web site: California State University Northridge - Phonetics and Phonology. Oct 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Open Library Publishing Platform - Essentials of Linguistics, 2nd edition - Phonetics. Aug 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Social Sciences LibreTexts - Phonetics. Jan 05, 2023
Corrected display issue. Aug 18, 2022
Added new Web site: Patrick Hassel Zein - Mandarin Chinese Phonetics. May 08, 2007
Added new Web site: Survey of Linguistics - Phonetics. May 08, 2007
Added new Web site: Ancient Scripts - Phonetics. May 08, 2007
Added new Web site: Ancient Scripts - A Compendium of World-Wide Writing Systems from Prehistory to Today. Jun 01, 2006
Article added to new online database. Sep 30, 1998
View Changes:
Article History
Revised:
By: