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Elizabeth Cook Zsiga (/ ˈ z iː ɡ ə /) [1] (b. 1964) is an American linguist whose work focuses on phonology and phonetics. She is a Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University . Education and career
In his critical analysis of phonetic theory, John Laver notes "Because it is so widespread, a version of the traditional method will be described here; but Ladefoged (1980) and Wood (1977, 1979) have proposed descriptions of tongue action which though less well known are more explanatory and less ambiguous, which are recommended to the reader ...
Sustained interest in phonetics began again around 1800 CE with the term "phonetics" being first used in the present sense in 1841. [ 7 ] [ 3 ] With new developments in medicine and the development of audio and visual recording devices, phonetic insights were able to use and review new and more detailed data.
He was Professor of Phonetics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught from 1962 to 1991. His book A Course in Phonetics is a common introductory text in phonetics, and The Sounds of the World's Languages (co-authored with Ian Maddieson ) is widely regarded as a standard phonetics reference.
A Practical Introduction to Phonetics, 2nd. ed., Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780199246359; Fundamental Problems in Phonetics; Word-stress and sentence-stress: a practical and theoretical guide for teachers of Basic English; A Linguistic Theory of Translation; Ergativity in Caucasian Languages
John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperantist.Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where until his retirement in 2006 he held the departmental chair in phonetics. [2]
Acoustic phonetics is a subfield of phonetics, which deals with acoustic aspects of speech sounds. Acoustic phonetics investigates time domain features such as the mean squared amplitude of a waveform, its duration, its fundamental frequency, or frequency domain features such as the frequency spectrum, or even combined spectrotemporal features and the relationship of these properties to other ...
Americanist phonetic notation, also known as the North American Phonetic Alphabet (NAPA), the Americanist Phonetic Alphabet or the American Phonetic Alphabet (APA), is a system of phonetic notation originally developed by European and American anthropologists and language scientists (many of whom were Neogrammarians) for the phonetic and phonemic transcription of indigenous languages of the ...