English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Recognised as the most practical and comprehensive text in the field of phonetics, this third edition of English Phonetics and Phonology includes revised transcriptions, a wider discussion of different varieties of English and an updated treatment of intonation.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Introduction
• 2 The production of speech sounds
• 3 Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs
• 4 Voicing and consonants
• 5 The phoneme
• 6 Fricatives and affricates
• 7 Nasals and other consonants
• 8 The syllable
• 9 Strong and weak syllables
• 10 Stress in simple words
• 11 Complex word stress
• 12 Weak forms
• 13 Problems in phonemic analysis