📚 Phonetics

Speech sounds measured: the IPA chart, the spectrograph, and the elocution tradition beside the science.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject phonetics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Duden	Konrad Duden	1902	61
	An outline of English phonetics	Daniel Jones	1918	20
	Bob books	Lynn Maslen Kertell	2009	20
	La phonétique	Bertil Malmberg	1962	12
	A course in phonetics	Peter Ladefoged	1975	12
	English phonetics and phonology	Roach, Peter	1983	12
	On early English pronunciation	Alexander John Ellis	1869	11
	Manual of articulatory phonetics	William Allen Smalley	1961	11
	Gimson's Pronunciation of English	Alan Cruttenden	1994	11
	The pronunciation of English	Daniel Jones	1909	10
	The phonetics of English	Ida C. Ward	1928	10
	The writing road to reading	Romalda Bishop Spalding	1957	10
	Phonics Works:	Sandra K. Stubben	1989	10
	Speech sounds	Patricia Ashby	1995	10
	Vowels and Consonants	Peter Ladefoged	2000	10
	Traité de phonétique	Maurice Grammont	1933	9
	Einfu hrung in die Phonetik	Maria Schubiger	1970	9
	Primary Phonics	Barbara W. Makar	1977	9
	Articulation and Phonology in Speech Sound Disorders	Jacqueline Bauman-Waengler	2015	9
	A first course of English phonetics	Palmer, Harold E.	1917	8
	The Handbook of phonetic sciences	William J. Hardcastle	1997	8
	Scott Foresman reading	Peter Afflerbach	2000	8
	Phonetics	Henning Reetz	2008	8
	Phonics	Gill Munton	2016	8
	English Dialogues with Phonetic Transcriptions	Charles Henry Jeaffreson	1895	7
	Professor Phonics Gives Sound Advice	Monica Foltzer	1967	7
	Clinical phonetics	Lawrence D. Shriberg	1982	7
	Phonics from A to Z	Wiley Blevins	1998	7
	Fundamentals of Phonetics	Larry H. Small	2009	7
	On defining the phoneme	W. F. Twaddell	1935	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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