Elements of
Acoustic Phonetics

LADEFOGED’S SECOND TITLE HERE. Copyright 1962 Peter Ladefoged; published 1962; NINTH IMPRESSION 1973 — this copy; ISBN 0-226-46785-6 paperbound; LC 62-8349. The preface states the brief exactly: an account of acoustics “for the benefit of linguists and phoneticians” that “assumes that the reader knows no physics or mathematics”. For a library whose work includes speech synthesis, this is the practical end of the shelf — the book that explains what a formant is before anyone reaches for a spectrogram.