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Author: Steven Chin ,
David Pisoni
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.699kg
ISBN: 9780121727758
ISBN 10: 0121727750
Pages: 362
Publication Date: 07 February 1997
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Reviews
The book provides a comprehensive review of the effects of alcohol on speech while comparing the various theoretical concerns that form this research. A special merit is the truly exhaustive survey of the relevant literature which also takes into account a significant number of studies which were written in and on languages other than English... The book thus serves as a single, unifying up-to-date reference source for those interested in speech motor effects evident in the acoustic records, reaction times, speech communication strategies, and perceptual judgments. --HERMANN J. KENZEL, University of Trier, Budeskriminalamt Wiesbaden, Germany Scientifically characterizing the effects of alcohol on speech has important implications, as exemplified by the case of the Exxon Valdez. Alcohol and Speech will be the classic reference text on this important intersection between basic science and social issues. --LINDA S. SOBELL, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida A very comprehensive treatise on alcohol and speech using the captain of the Exxon Valdez as the anecdotal model... The book is a meld of a broad array of disciplines each of which can contribute to a fundamental understanding of the specific effects of alcohol on speech... This book is unique. --ROBERT F. BORKENSTEIN, Indiana University, Bloomington Chin and Pisoni bring to the reader a careful and complete assessment of the effects of alcohol on speech. The result of their scholarship should be of interest to anyone concerned with alcohol and speech, but the book also is a valuable reference for the general study of forensics and the effects of drugs on human behavior. This book sets a standard for the field and will surely find a secure place in the scientific and legal literature. --RAY D. KENT, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison ...this book is the first attempt to bring together the research on alcohol and speech, and is largely successful. As such it will serve as a good reference text for any of the readers of Addiction Biology interested in the link between alcohol and speech. --JOHN FOSTER, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Kings College Hospital, U.K. in ADDICTION BIOLOGY
Author Information
Steven Chin is an N.I.H. Postdoctoral Research Fellow and an assistant research scientist in the Speech Research Laboratory (Department of Psychology) at Indiana University and in the Department of Otolaryngology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He conducts research on atypical speech and clinical phonology. David Pisoni is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Guggenheim Fellow, and winner of the James McKenneCattel Award, Jacob K. Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, and Claude Pepper Award. He has written extensively on speech perception, production and synthesis; speech analysis and recognition, experimental psycholinguistics, and human memory. Chancellors' Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University, he serves on the editorial boards of Speech Technology, Computer Speech and Language, and Cognitive Psychology.
