A Phonetics Workbook for Students: Building a Foundation for Transcription (The Allyn & Bacon Communication Sciences and Disorders)

Understanding how sounds formand how sounds combine to create words is imperative to learning how to transcribe speech phonetically. Taking a meta approach, A Phonetics Workbook for Students by Heidi Harbers prepares students to transcribe speech phonetically by helping them become aware of the sounds of English phonology. Following a systematic, learning-friendly organization, chapters progress from awareness of sounds, to articulatory phonetics and IPA symbols, to transcription. Unlike other workbooks, its exercises are varied and challenging and develop both foundational and critical thinking skills. By teaching students how to develop both an ear and eye for phonetics, the workbook provides a superior foundation from which transcription skills can develop.