This multidisciplinary text on the domain and nature of phonetics explores the production of speech and its control by the brain, and the description and analysis of voice quality. Twenty articles discuss topics such as slips of the tongue, neurolinguistic aspects of speech production, cognitive science and speech, language and non-verbal communication, the semiotic nature of phonetic data, structural pathologies of the vocal folds and pathology, acoustic waveform perturbations and voice disorders, and an analysis of vocal quality from the classical period to the 20th century. Of interest to theoretical linguists, as well as speech pathologists and therapists -- Provided by the publisher.