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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Basic Acoustics and Acoustic Filters | |
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The Sensation of Sound | |
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The Propagation of Sound | |
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Types of Sounds | |
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Simple Periodic Waves | |
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Complex Periodic Waves | |
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Aperiodic Waves | |
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Acoustic Filters | |
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Exercises | |
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Digital Signal Processing | |
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Continuous versus Discrete Signals | |
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Analog-to-Digital Conversion | |
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Sampling | |
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Quantization | |
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Signal Analysis Methods | |
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Auto-Correlation Pitch Tracking | |
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RMS Amplitude | |
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Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) | |
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Digital Filters | |
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Linear PredictiveCoding (LPC) | |
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Spectra and Spectrograms | |
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Exercises | |
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Basic Audition | |
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Anatomy of the Peripheral Auditory System | |
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The Auditory Sensation of Loudness | |
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Frequency Response of the Auditory System | |
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Auditory Representations | |
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Exercises | |
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Speech Perception | |
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A Speech Perception Experiment | |
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Maps from Distances | |
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The Perceptual Map of Fricatives | |
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The Perceptual Map of [Place] | |
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The Limits of Perceptual Universality: A Cross-Linguistic Map of Chinese Tones | |
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Exercises | |
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The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production: Deriving Schwa | |
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Voicing | |
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Voicing Quanta | |
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Vocal Tract Filtering | |
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Pendulums, Standing Waves, and Vowel Formants | |
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LPC Spectral Analysis | |
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Exercises | |
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Vowels | |
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Tube Models of Vowel Production | |
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Perturbation Theory | |
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"Preferred" Vowels: Quantal Theory and Adaptive Dispersion | |
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Vowel Formants and the Acoustic Vowel Space | |
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Auditory and Acoustic Representations of Vowels | |
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Cross-Linguistic Vowel Perception | |
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Exercises | |
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Fricatives | |
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Turbulence | |
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Place of Articulation in Fricatives | |
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Quantal Theory and Fricatives | |
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Fricative Auditory Spectra | |
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Dimension of Fricative Perception | |
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Exercises | |
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Stops and Affricates | |
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Source Functions for Stops and Affricates | |
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Phonation Types | |
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Sound Sources in Stops and Affricates | |
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Vocal Tract Filter Functions in Stops | |
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Affricates | |
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Auditory Properties of Stops | |
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Stop Perception in Different Vowel Contexts | |
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Exercises | |
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Nasals and Laterals | |
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Bandwidth | |
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Nasal Stops | |
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Laterals | |
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Nasalization | |
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Nasal Consonant Perception | |
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Exercises | |
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References | |
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Answers to Selected Short-Answer Questions | |
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Index | |