Practical English Phonetics and Phonology

Auteur

Paul Carley has held posts at the University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, and the universities of Bedfordshire and Leicester. He has been a regular lecturer on the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics.

Inger M. Mees is Associate Professor Emerita at the Copenhagen Business School and a part-time lecturer at Copenhagen University. She has formerly held lectureships at the universities of Leiden and Copenhagen.

Beverley Collins (19382014) held lectureships in phonetics at the universities of Lancaster and Leiden, and was Visiting Professor at Ghent University. He was also a regular lecturer at the UCL Summer Course in English Phonetics.

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This fifth edition of Practical English Phonetics and Phonology has been revised and updated throughout.

Résumé
This fifth edition of Practical English Phonetics and Phonology has been revised and updated throughout.

Contenu

List of figures

List of tables

Audio recordings (on companion website)

Prefaces and acknowledgements

Phonemic symbols

A Segments

A1 British and American English

A2 Phoneme, allophone, syllable

A3 How we produce speech

A4 Consonant possibilities

A5 English obstruents

A6 English sonorants

A7 Vowel possibilities

A8 The English short vowels

A9 The English long vowels

A10 The English diphthongs and vowels + /r/

B Supra-segmental features

B1 Phoneme and syllable revisited

B2 Word stress

B3 Sentence stress

B4 Features of connected speech

B5 Speech melody

B6 Pronunciation change

B7 Teaching English pronunciation

B8 Learning a foreign language

C Accents of English

C1 Accent variation: GB and GA

C2 Accents of the British Isles 1: England

C3 Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties

C4 World accent varieties 1: North America

C5 World accent varieties 2: The Southern Hemisphere

C6 World accent varieties 3: Second-language varieties and creole-influenced speech

Glossary

Further reading

References

Index

The International Phonetic Alphabet