Bundle: An Introduction to Language + A Course in Phonetics

Author(s): Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina M. Hyams, M. Amberber, Felicity Cox, Rosalind Thornton, Peter Ladefoged, Keith Johnson

This is a Value Pack containing Fromkin's An Introduction to Language 9e + Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics 7e. An Introduction to Language continues to be instrumental in introducing students to the fascinating study of human language. Engagingly and clearly written, it provides an overview of the key areas of linguistics from an Australian perspective. This classic text is suitable for students in fields as diverse as linguistics, computer science, English, communication studies, anthropology, foreign language teaching and speech pathology. A Course in Phonetics remains the authoritative text for the study of phonetics. Extremely student friendly, the text introduces concepts of speech production, describes speech in acoustic terms, and teaches practical phonetic skills, including IPA transcription. In addition, the thoroughly revised companion website includes interactive exercises, instant spectrograms for every chapter, over 4,000 audio files of nearly 100 languages, and maps keyed to sounds of languages where they are spoken.

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EAN: 9780170287180