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It is now over 10 years since the publication of the first edition of The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences . Since then the phonetic sciences have developed substantially and there are now many more disciplines taking a professional interest in speech-related areas. This multidisciplinary orientation continues to be reflected in the second edition. In this second edition, 32 leading researchers have contributed 22 chapters in 5 major sectors of the contemporary subject. As with the first edition, an elementary knowledge of the field is assumed and each chapter presents an overview of a key area of the expertise which makes up the wide range of the phonetic sciences today. There are a number of chapters retained from the first edition which have been substantially updated by the authors. These include the chapters by Stone, Shadle, Hirose, Mackenzie Beck, Farnetani and Recasens, Löfqvist, Gobl and Ní Chasaide, Stevens and Hanson, Moore, McQueen and Cutler, Ohala, Carlson and Granström. Other topic areas from the first edition have been given completely new treatment by newly commissioned authors (chapters by Harrington, Ackermann and Ziegler, Smith, Davis, Ellis, Renals and King). There are also two new chapters covering sociophonetics (Scobbie, Foulkes, and Watt) and phonetic notation (Esling). To reflect the increasing significance of the area of prosody in the phonetic sciences ... log in or subscribe to read full text