KEY BENEFIT:  This comprehensive look at acoustics and the acoustics of speech gives readers a clear understanding of often challenging topics through examples and analogies from everyday life and general experiences.

KEY TOPICS: Fundamentals of sound, sound propagation, and the parameters of sound; complex waves and the notion of the Fourier Transform; signals and the conversion of analog to digital signals; the recording of sound in digital media; spectra, including the composition of sound itself and the graphical representation of its composition; decibels and rms; filters and filtering; resonance; the source-filter theory; consonants of American English; psychoacoustics, with particular attention to the nature of dB HL.

MARKET: Designed primarily for upper undergraduate or graduate students of audiology, speech-language pathology, linguistics, and cognitive science/psychology.