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. Regular articles, review articles, and letters to the editor are published. Themed issues are also published, devoted entirely to a specific subject of interest within the field of phonetics.

Research Areas Include:

• Speech production, the application of various measurement techniques, physiological modeling, development of production models, and theories.

• Speech acoustics, methods of acoustic data analysis, compression, and processing.

• Speech perception, perception models, auditory and neural representation of speech, and processing of speech vs non-speech signals.

• Phonetic aspects of psycholinguistics, word recognition models, and psychological representation of speech in terms of various units.

• Speech synthesis, linguistic analysis aimed at improving synthesis systems.

• Automatic speech recognition and speaker recognition.

• Descriptive phonetics pertaining to individual languages.

• The relation between phonetics and phonology.

• Vocal fold functioning in normal and pathological speech.

• Various aspects of pathological speech production, acoustics, and perception.

• Speech and language acquisition.

• Phonetic aspects of foreign language acquisition.