5. Some caveats -The phonetics/phonology interface is a broad topic that has been considered from many points of views. -Extensive recent literature in acquisition, psycholinguistics, role of the lexicon, role of speech perception (See among others, recent LabPhon volumes, Burton-Roberts et al. 2000, Hume and Johnson 2001, Bod et al. 2003) -Conclusion recently argued for by Pierrehumbert (2003,...

Focusing on general phonetics and its role in the world today, this paper explores what the term really means. Against a historical background, it outlines the development of general phonetics from its Victorian inception to the present day. It looks at the theoretical and practical sides of the subject (including ear-training and production training), and summarizes the IPA Certificate examina...

Arabic phonetics has been part of the study of Arabic language since the 7 th century CE. The great works by Al-Khali:l, "Kita:b al-'Ayn", and Si:bawayh, author of the first Arabic grammar book "al-kita:b" (i.e., "The Book") are the two cornerstones of this field. The early Arab grammarians knew phonetics quite well, although they mixed it with phonology, but interest in phonetics has remained ...

The derivational view of phonetics-phonology (Ladd, this volume) expresses an intuition that seems valid, namely, that there is a distinction to be made between quantitative and qualitative aspects of phonetics-phonology. Incomplete neutralization (Ernestus and Baayen, this volume) and other phenomena like it indicate that the specific way of drawing that distinction is too rigid. At the same t...