Phonetics may be defined as the science of speech. It is concerned with all aspects of the production, transmission, and perception of the sounds of language. (From the entry for Phonetics by Michael Ashby in the Oxford Bibliographies Online.)
Below are some key (online) reference works for phonetics.
The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics
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The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Phonetics
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A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
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UBC Library, like most academic libraries, uses Library of Congress Subject Headings. Books on Phonetics can be found in the UBC Library catalogue under these Subject Headings:
For books on the phonetics of a specific language, use this format (replace 'French' with whichever language you are interested in):
The Journal of Phonetics publishes papers of an experimental or theoretical nature that deal with phonetic aspects of language and linguistic communication processes. Papers dealing with technological and/or pathological topics, or papers of an interdisciplinary nature are also suitable, provided that linguistic-phonetic principles underlie the work reported.
JIPA is a forum for original research in the fields of phonetic theory and description and their phonological, typological and broader implications. JIPA is especially concerned with the theory behind the International Phonetic Alphabet and publishes papers, known as Illustrations of the IPA, that use the alphabet for the analysis and description of the sound structures of a wide variety of languages.
An international journal publishing research into linguistics and phonetics including speech and language disorders, hearing impairment and sign language.
Since 1929, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) has been the leading source of theoretical and experimental research results in the broad interdisciplinary subject of sound. The journal serves physical scientists, life scientists, engineers, psychologists, physiologists, architects, musicians, and speech communication specialists.
Phonetica is an international forum for phonetic science that covers all aspects of the subject matter, from phonetic and phonological descriptions, to articulatory and signal analytic measures of production, to perception, acquisition, and phonetic variation and change.