This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, a

This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics is now available in a fully updated second edition. Peter Ladefoged describes how languages use a variety

This book describes all the known ways in which the sounds of the world's languages differ. Encapsulating the work of two leading figures in the field, it will

“Mum says it’s for our own protection. London’s just getting too dangerous.” It’s 1941. Hitler’s ruthless Luftwaffe has already started its deadly b

Describing how people talk requires recording and analyzing phonetic data. This is true for researchers investigating the variant pronunciations of street names