Covers the main areas of phonetics, including how speech sounds are made. By Peter Roach. Part of the Oxford Introductions to Language Study series.

Phonetics is an essential part of linguistics, as it is through analysing spoken language that linguistic data is collected. This book leads the reader through the main areas of phonetics, including how speech sounds are made and how phoneticians classify them in certain ways, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and how sounds are transmitted from speaker to hearer.