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, theInternational Phonetic Alphabet, and how sounds are transmitted from speaker to hearer. | Oxford Introduction to Language Study: Phonetics by Peter Roach, Paperback | Indigo Chapters