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.
