Selected introductory reading

The books in the following list are introductory, and specialise in different aspects of phonology and phonetics. The list in the bibliography is more general, and some of the books are rather advanced and technical.

1. Clark, C. & C. Yallop (1990). An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.
2. Couper-Kuhlen, E. (1986). An introduction to English prosody. London: Edward Arnold.
3. Fry, D.B. (ed.) (1976), Acoustic Phonetics. A Course of Basic Readings. Cambridge, MA.
4. Goldsmith1989 Goldsmith, J. Autosegmental and Metrical Phonology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
5. Ladefoged, Peter (1993). A Course in Phonetics. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.
6. Liberman, Philip & Sheila Blumstein (1988). Speech physiology, speech perception, and acoustic phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Neppert, Joachim & Magnús Pétursson (1992). Elemente einer akustischen Phonetik. (2nd printing; 1st printing 1984) Hamburg: Buske.
8. Perkins, W.H. & Kent, R.D. (1986): Textbook of Functional Anatomy of Speech, Language and Hearing.
9. Pompino-Marschall, B. (1995), Einführung in die Phonetik. Berlin: de Gruyter
10. Pétursson, Magnús Joachim Neppert (1991). Elementarbuch der Phonetik. Hamburg: Buske.
11. Rosen, Stuart & Peter Howell (1991). Signals and Systems for Speeech and Hearing. London: Academic Press.

Further reading