Apart from philology, phonetics is the oldest tradition within linguistics as a practising science. Hermann von Helmholtz published On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music in 1863, Alexander Melville Bell published Visible Speech in 1867, and those works remain vital and relevant today. Phonetics is a truly interdisciplinary endeavour, drawing on work from anatomy, computer science, electrical engineering, neuroscience, physics, and psychology, as well as from linguistics.
Bringing together the best and most influential canonical and cutting-edge research from this rich and flourishing subdiscipline, Phonetics is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics. It documents the major approaches to the phonetic sciences: articulatory, acoustic, auditory, and linguistic, and highlights the contributions from the various allied disciplines.
Phonetics is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
