This reference work covers the scientific and humanistic study of speech and language and provides a wealth of information on the topic for scholars, researchers, and students at all levels across social sciences, humanities, and medicine.
* Brings together 42,000 extensively cross-referenced entries that define and contextualize the technical vocabulary of all disciplines related to spoken, signed, and written languages and their acquisition, use, and pathology
* Authored by a multidisciplinary, international team of 23 specialists, under the editorship of two noted linguists
* Includes more than 10,000 classifications and descriptions of present and past languages and principal dialects of the world
* Historicizes the study of speech and language with 100 biographies of leading contemporary and historical scholars in linguistics, phonetics, and related disciplines
* Provides unparalleled scope with coverage ranging far beyond linguistics and phonetics to speech-relevant disciplines such as anatomy, anthropology, pathology, neurology, psycholinguistics, and much more
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John Laver is Emeritus Professor of Speech Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was previously Deputy Principal. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has served as President of the International Phonetic Association and was appointed CBE in the New Year's Honours List in 1999 for contributions to phonetics. His publications include The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, Second Edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), The Gift of Speech (1996), Principles of Phonetics (1994), and The Phonetic Description of Voice Quality (1980).
R. E. Asher is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, where he also served as Vice-Principal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, and Honorary Fellow of the Delhi Sahitya Akademi, India. His publications include grammars of Malayalam (1997) and Tamil (1982), as well as The Atlas of the World's Languages (2007), and The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (1994).
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Author Profiles
List of Contributing Authors
List of Guest Authors
How to Use this Dictionary
List of Disciplines and Domain Labels
List of Logic and Set Theory Symbols
International Phonetic Alphabet Chart
extIPA Symbols for Disordered Speech
The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Speech and Language
Bibliography of Principal Reference Sources
