„I would say that the strength of this book lies in the technicalchapters.“ (The Linguist, June 2010) „I have taught speech science and phonetics courses for over35 years, always using my own individually designed course packet-- now I finally can adopt a textbook that meets all my needs. This book provides an in-depth, up-to-date, and reader friendlytreatment of how human speech is produced, acoustically shaped, analyzed, and perceived.“ Harvey M. Sussman, University ofTexas at Austin "Reetz and Jongman's textbook should be required reading foranyone interested in learning about and understanding phonetics. Phonetics is a rich but challenging field of study since it coverssuch a broad range of areas (speech production, acoustics, speechperception) across a number of disciplines (physics, physiology, linguistics, psychology, biology). Reetz and Jongman provide amasterful and rich introduction that is probably the mostcomprehensive of any current or even past textbook by combiningarticulatory phonetics and phonetic transcription with acousticphonetics and speech perception. As a consequence, the student willnot only learn each of these critical areas but ultimately how theymay inform each other. The approach of this book is importantlyconceptual, introducing the student to the principles underlyingspeech. Technical concepts are introduced in a clear manner, examples are plentiful, exercises and demonstrations on the book'swebsite provide hands-on and interactive opportunities that willenhance and enrich the learning process." Sheila E. Blumstein, Brown University