This textbook has been carefully designed to provide a thorough
introduction to the study of speech. It assumes no technical background,
and students from a wide variety of disciplines contributing to this new
and exciting field will find the exposition fully accessible. Each
chapter progresses from simple examples to more detailed discussions of
recent primary research and concludes with stimulating problem sets. All
topics essential for a basic understanding of the field are included:
the physiological, biological, and neurological bases of speech; the
physics of sound; the source-filter theory of speech production; and the
underlying principles of electrical and computer models of speech
production.