The Gift of Speech

Download or read book The Gift of Speech written by John Laver and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary text on the domain and nature of phonetics explores the production of speech and its control by the brain, and the description and analysis of voice quality. Twenty articles discuss topics such as slips of the tongue, neurolinguistic aspects of speech production, cognitive science and speech, language and non-verbal communication, the semiotic nature of phonetic data, structural pathologies of the vocal folds and pathology, acoustic waveform perturbations and voice disorders, and an analysis of vocal quality from the classical period to the 20th century. Of interest to theoretical linguists, as well as speech pathologists and therapists. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR