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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2021

By
Rachael-Anne Knight  and
Jane Setter
Edited by
Rachael-Anne Knight  and
Jane Setter
Rachael-Anne Knight
Affiliation:
City, University of London
Jane Setter
Affiliation:
University of Reading
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Summary

How is speech produced, perceived and processed? How is it used by individuals and speech communities, and how does it change over time? How is speech learnt, by first- and second-language speakers, and how does it present when it is disordered? These questions, alongside many more, are of interest to researchers in the broad field of phonetics. Phonetics has a long history, dating at least from writing systems in the ancient world, and has continually evolved as a discipline in response to new theories, methods and technologies (see, for example, Heselwood et al., 2013, for a full historical overview). Today, the field is broad, and interdisciplinary, as shown by the coverage of phonetics journals and conferences, and the chapters in this handbook.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics , pp. 1 - 8
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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