Advances in Phonetics


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Inhalt: S. P. Whiteside / C. Hodgson: Development of Motor Speech S. P. Whiteside / R. A. Varley: Dual-Route Phonetic Encoding R. A. Varley / S. P. Whiteside: Evidence from Apraxia of Speech N. O. Schiller: Masked Priming of Sublexical Units J. Esling / J. A. W. Clayards: Laryngoscopic Analysis of Pharyngeal Articulations and Larynx-Height Voice Quality Settings A. Krasovitsky: Russian Vocalic Systems with Vowel Discordance H. Hollien / K. Liljegren / C. A. Martin / G. DeJong: Prediction of Intoxication Levels by Speech Analysis R. P. Dixit: Tongue-Palate Contact Patterns of Hindi H. Hollien / K. Nielson: Problems Created when Vowels Are Sung at Very High Pitches R. Garrison-Tull: Understanding Performance Problems of Cold-Speech in Automatic Speaker Recognition Systems S. Werner / M. Vainio: Standardized Comparison of Intonation Models D. Horga: The Long-Term Average Spectrum as a Measure of Voice Quality in L1 and L2 Speakers J. Rosenhouse: Pronunciation of Foreign Proper Names in Speakers of American English S. S. Sarma / S. S. Agrawal: Hindi Speech Data Bases for Research in Speech Recognition and Synthesis D. Stewart / J. Ming / F. J. Smith: Automatic Syllabification with Application to Continuous Speech Recognition "This book is an impressive collection of the most current work in the field. ... The editor, Dr. Braun, has done an excellent job of putting theses papers together in an easy-to-read format and capturing the essence of the IPS-98 meeting. The topics have a broad appeal and will familiarize the reader with the types of research currently going on in several areas of Phonetics. It is unusual to find a volume that demonstrates such diversity of topics with a common underlying theme. This book would be of great value to researchers and students alike." The Phonetician . (Franz Steiner 1999)










Bel Canto


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In this well documented and highly readable book, James Stark provides a history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to the present. Using a nineteenth-century treatise by Manuel Garcia as his point of reference, Stark analyses the many sources that discuss singing techniques and selects a number of primary vocal 'problems' for detailed investigation. He also presents data from a series of laboratory experiments carried out to demonstrate the techniques of bel canto. The discussion deals extensively with such topics as the emergence of virtuoso singing, the castrato phenomenon, national differences in singing styles, controversies regarding the perennial decline in the art of singing, and the so-called secrets of bel canto. Stark offers a new definition of bel canto which reconciles historical and scientific descriptions of good singing. His is a refreshing and profound discussion of issues important to all singers and voice teachers.