Practical phonetics and phonology: Resource book for students

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Practical Phonetics and Phonology:

presents the essentials of the subject in a lively way whilst stressing the day-to-day applications of phonetics and phonology covers all the core concepts of speech science such as: the phoneme, syllable structure, production of speech, vowel and consonant possibilities, glottal settings, stress, rhythm, intonation and the surprises of connected speech incorporates classic readings from key names in the discipline including David Abercrombie, David Crystal, Dennis Fry, Daniel Jones, Peter Ladefoged, and Steven Pinker includes an audio CD containing a collection of samples provided by genuine speakers of twenty-three accent varieties from Britain, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Singapore and West Africa.

New features of this edition include: new readings by Peter Trudgill and John Well; a section on English orthography; an appendix of websites dealing with phonetics and accents of English; revised and updated activities and examples. The accompanying CD now includes: British Estuary English and New York English.

The second edition of Practical Phonetics and Phonologywill appeal to all students of English language and linguistics and those training for a certificate in TEFL.

and West Africa.

New features of this edition include: new readings by Peter Trudgill and John Well; a section on English orthography; an appendix of websites dealing with phonetics and accents of English; revised and updated activities and examples. The accompanying CD now includes: British Estuary English and New York English.

The second edition of Practical Phonetics and Phonologywill appeal to all students of English language and linguistics and those training for a certificate in TEFL.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• A Introduction
• 1 English worldwide
• Introduction
• The phonetics and phonology
• The accent and dialect in English
• The what sort of English pronunciation?
• The the decline of traditional Received Pronunciation
• The present-day educated British English
• The the advent of Estuary English
• The General American
• The World Englishes
• 2 Phoneme and allophone
• Phonemes and allophones
• The the phoneme in English
• The English phonemic system
• The the syllable
• The phonemic and phonetic transcription
• 3 Connected speech and phonemic transcription
• Stress
• The strong, weak and contracted forms
• The use of weak forms and contracted forms
• The sample transcription
• The brief transcription guide
• 4 How we produce speech
• Introduction
• The respiratory system
• The phonatory system
• The states of the glottis
• The voiceless
• The glottal stop
• The creak and creaky voice
• The whisper
• The breathy voice
• The articulatory system
• 5 Consonant possibilities
• Place of articulation
• The manner of articulation
• The voicing and energy of articulation
• The fortis/lenis contrast in English
• The secondary articulation
• The articulatory setting
• 6 Vowel possibilities
• Introduction
• The tongue shape
• The cardinal vowels
• The later additions
• The steady-state vowels and diphthongs
• The the soft palate
• The duration
• B Development
• 1 Phoneme and syllable revisited
• Introduction
• The complementary distribution
• The phoneme neutralisation
• The phoneme systems in different varieties of English
• The syllable revisited
• The consonant-vowel distinction
• 2 English consonants
• Stops
• The fricatives
• The nasals
• The approximants
• The other type of allophonic variation
• 3 English vowelsChecked vowels
• The free vowels
• The diphthongs
• 4 Features of connected speech
• The surprises of connected speech
• The phonetic conditioning
• The assimilation
• The elision
• The liaison
• The patterns of assimilation in English
• The patterns of elision in English
• 5 Stress and rhythm
• Phonetic features of stress
• The word stress
• The stress guidelines
• The stress in English compounds
• The sentence stress
• The stress and rhythm
• 6 Speech melody
• Pitch movement
• The tone languages
• The intonation
• The structure of intonation patterns in English
• The paralinguistic features
• The functions of intonation in English
• The falling and rising patterns
• The intonation sequences
• The tag-questions and tag-type responses
• C Exploration
• 1 Accent variation
• The General American
• Types of variation found in accents
• The British and American compared
• 2 Accents of British Isles 1: England
• Some significant features of selected accents
• The London
• West Country
• Midlands
• North East
• 3 Accents of British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties
• Scotland
• Ireland
• Northern Ireland
• Wales
• Merseyside
• 4 World accent varieties
• International Englishes
• The British English and American English compared
• The American varieties
• Australian
• New Zealand
• South African
• Indian
• Caribbean
• West African
• 5 Pronunciation change: past, present, future
• The past
• The Old English
• The Chaucer
• The Shakespeare
• The 18th and 19th centuries
• The Pronunciation change in the 20th and 21st century
• The changes in living memory
• The changes now
• The changes yet to come
• The attitudes to change
• 6 Teaching and Learning a foreign language
• Hierarchy of error
• The contrastive/error analysis
• The hints on teaching pronunciation to non-native learners
• The how to learn a foreign language
• The exemplification based on French, German and Spanish
• The how to diagnose, analyse and correct learners' errors
• The survey of pronunciation errors frequently produced by learners of English
• D Extension
• Nine units consisting of a selection of core readings from existing books and articles with annotations and questions
• 1 RP
• The R. I. P?
• 2 Attitudes to accents
• 3 Pronunciation worries
• 4 Helping the deaf to hear
• 5 Making computers talk
• 6 Covert associations of speech sound