PART A:THE HISTORY OF PHONETICS 1
1.Earlier history of phoneticsGPANCONCELLI-CALZIA 3
2.Technical development of phoneticsFTRENDELENBURG 18
PART B:BASAL SCIENCES OF PHONETICS 29
3.Morphology and physiology of the speech organsGEARNOLD 31
4.Auditory considerationsNRFRENCH 65
5.Phonetics from the viewpoint of psychologyAGEMELLI and JWBLACK 94
6.Statistical methods in phoneticsEBNEWMAN 118
PART C:PHONETIC RESEARCH 127
7.The phonetic evaluation of signalsGEPETERSON 129
8.Breath stream dynamicsGEPETERSON 139
9.Laryngeal vibrationsGEPETERSON 149
10.ArticulationGEPETERSON 156
11.The application of Roentgenography in the study of speechJDSUBTELNY,SPRUZANSKY and JSUBTELNY 166
12.Speech analysisHLBARNEY and HKDUNN 180
13.Speech synthesisHLBARNEY and HKDUNN 202
PART D:PHONETICS IN ITS RELATION TO LINGUISTICS 213
a.General Part 213
14.Phonology in relation to phoneticsRJAKOBSON and MHALLE 215
15.Phonetics and linguistic evolutionAMARTINET 252
b.Special Part 275
General Introduction to Part Db 277
16.The Romance languagesGHAMMARSTR?M 279
17.The Germanic languagesLFBROSNAHAN and OVON ESSEN 289
18.The Slavonic languagesBHáLA 302
19.The Finno-Ugrian languagesASOVIJ?RVI 312
20.The Semitic phonetic systemWLESLAU 325
21.Notes on African tone languagesABURSSENS 330
PART E:PHONETICS IN ITS RELATION TO OTHER SCIENCES 337
22.Phonetics and pathologyRLUCHSINGER 339
23.Phonetics and sociologyASOMMERFELT 364
24.Phonetics in its relation to musicologyJSMITS VAN WAESBERGHE 372
25.Phonetics in its relation to aestheticsAWDE GROOT 385
PART F:PHONETICS AND THE ORIGIN OF SPEECH 401
26.Phonetical description of speech development in childhoodOCIRWIN 403
27.Development of speech in mankindEBUYSSENS 426
28.General semantics(A comparison between linguistic and sub-linguistic phonic expression)FTROJAN 437
Subject Index 441
Author Index 453