Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This volume covers a wide spectrum of research topics on turbulent sounds, such as fricatives, affricates, stops, ejectives and clicks. The thorough studies presented in this book explore their phonological, acoustic, aerodynamic, articulatory characteristics and modeling. The volume also discusses the impact of the anatomy onto turbulent sound production and provides an extensive overview of modifications of turbulent sounds in pathological speech.
Synopsis
No sound class requires so much basic knowledge of phonology, acoustics, aerodynamics, and speech production as obstruents (turbulent sounds) do. This book is intended to bridge a gap by introducing the reader to the world of obstruents from a multidisciplinary perspective. It starts with a review of typological processes, continues with various contributions to the phonetics-phonology interface, explains the realization of specific turbulent sounds in endangered languages, and finishes with surveys of obstruents from a sociophonetic, physical and pathological perspective.