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Author:   Alain Marchal
Publisher:   ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.488kg
ISBN:  

9781848211131

ISBN 10:   1848211139
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   10 July 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface ix Chapter 1. Respiration and Pulmonary Initiation 1 1.1. The rib cage 2 1.2. Lungs 3 1.3. Normal respiration 5 1.4. Respiration muscles 5 1.5. Pulmonary capacity and pulmonary volume 10 1.6. Respiration in phonation 11 Chapter 2. Phonation and the Larynx 23 2.1. The larynx 23 2.2. The laryngeal cartilages 30 2.3. Joints and ligaments 32 2.4. The larynx muscles 35 2.5. Innervation of the larynx 50 2.6. The mucous membrane of the larynx 50 2.7. Phonation 50 2.8. The linguistic functions of laryngeal activity 59 2.9. Phonetic features 63 Chapter 3. Articulation: Pharynx and Mouth 65 3.1. The oral cavity 66 3.2. The pharynx 77 Chapter 4. Articulation: The Labio-Mandibular System 97 4.1. The lips: anatomical and functional description 98 4.2. The jaw 106 4.3. Linguistic functions of lip movement 110 4.4. Motor coordination between the lips and the lower jaw 114 Chapter 5. Elements of Articulatory Typology 117 5.1. Aerodynamic mechanisms 117 5.2. Phonatory modes 121 5.3. Articulation 125 Chapter 6. The Articulatory Description of Vowels and Consonants 133 6.1. Vowels 134 6.2. Consonants 141 Chapter 7. Coarticulation and Co-production 153 7.1. Translation models 155 7.2. Action models 161 7.3. Towards a direct theory of speech production 165 7.4. The nature of coarticulation phenomena 173 7.5. Interpretation of coarticulation phenomena 177 7.6. Conclusion 177 Bibliography 179 Index 209

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Alain Marchal is a senior scientist in Linguistics and Phonetics at the French National Research Center (CNRS). He conducts interdisciplinary research work on speech production with a special focus on cross-language aspects of coarticulation in a number of european languages, using multisensor recording techniques, including electropalatography.

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