Cancio (speech-language pathology, California State U., Fresno) and the late Singh (communicative disorders, San Diego State U.) offer a workbook for undergraduate communicative disorders students in introductory phonetics courses. It explains and presents exercises related to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA); writing IPA symbols, syllables, and word shapes; the articulatory aspects of phonetics; the production and writing of various types of consonants and vowels; diphthongs; word stress; the dynamics of connected speech; and dialect differences. This edition adds new material on the concepts of syllables, word stress, and central vowels; learning objectives and study questions; a glossary of terms; additional transcription exercises for central vowels; a third CD containing phoneme study card audio tracks; an index of the CD contents; new syllable exercises; and new exercises for determining word stress. The other two CDs contain transcription exercises. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)