Voice Quality A Classified Research Bibliography |
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Author:
| Laver, John |
Series title: | Library and Information Sources in Linguistics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-90-272-8122-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1979 |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
List Price: | USD $158.00 |
Book Description:
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The characteristic voice quality of a speaker conveys to listeners a wealth of information about his physical, psychological and social attributes. For this reason, voice quality is of interest to a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, phonetics and speech science, speech pathology, sociology, psychology, medicine, and communication engineering. Literature on voice quality is, consequently, scattered through a correspondingly wide range of publications. While this...
More DescriptionThe characteristic voice quality of a speaker conveys to listeners a wealth of information about his physical, psychological and social attributes. For this reason, voice quality is of interest to a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, phonetics and speech science, speech pathology, sociology, psychology, medicine, and communication engineering. Literature on voice quality is, consequently, scattered through a correspondingly wide range of publications. While this bibliography is unlikely to be exhaustive, it aims to be comprehensive. Exceptions to this are purely medical literature and literature on speech pathology; also, although a number of different languages are represented, works in English received the principal coverage.