An overview of the properties of vowels and consonants
Vaux & Samuels – Explaining vowel systems: dispersion theory vs natural selection
Cross-linguistic distribution of vowel systems
Turk et al. – Acoustic Segment Durations in Prosodic Research: A Practical Guide
A guide to segmenting speech using acoustic features (i.e., spectrograms)
Tanner et al. – Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects
Looks at acoustics characteristics of vowels across many dialects of English.
Peterson & Barney – Control Methods Used in a Study of the Vowels
Examines the production and perception of vowels. This is a classic paper that many other studies on have built on.
Ladefoged & Johnson – A course in phonetics – Chapter 8 – Acoustic phonetics
Links the source-filter model to spectrograms and acoustic analysis of speech.
Ladefoged & Johnson – A course in phonetics – Chapter 2 – Phonology and Phonetic Transcription
Basics of phonology and phonetic transcription. Read this over Speech Processing modules 1 and 2.
This is the new version. Still under construction.