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English Phonetics and Phonology An Introduction

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"For non-native students, knowledge of stress, rhythm and intonation is useful as an aid to improving their English proficiency." ( English Studies , 1 October 2014)

"It is a useful, comprehensive preparatory text for linguistics students and also a guideline for teachers. Beginners in linguistics and anyone with an interest in the subject will also benefit from this book." ( Times Higher Education Supplement , 8 November 2012)

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

04.09.2012

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

264

Maße (L/B/H)

22.8/15.2/0.8 cm

Gewicht

272 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-3454-5

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

04.09.2012

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

264

Maße (L/B/H)

22.8/15.2/0.8 cm

Gewicht

272 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-3454-5

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  • Produktbild: English Phonetics and Phonology
  • Preface for Teachers ix
    Preface for Students xiii
    Acknowledgements xvi
    Figure 1 The organs of speech xvii
    Figure 2 The International Phonetic Alphabet xviii
    1 English Phonetics: Consonants (i) 1
    1.1 Airstream and Articulation 1
    1.2 Place of Articulation 2
    1.3 Manner of Articulation: Stops, Fricatives and Approximants 6
    Exercises 10
    2 English Phonetics: Consonants (ii) 12
    2.1 Central vs Lateral 12
    2.2 Taps and Trills 13
    2.3 Secondary Articulation 13
    2.4 Affricates 14
    2.5 Aspiration 15
    2.6 Nasal Stops 15
    Exercises 17
    3 English Phonetics: Vowels (i) 20
    3.1 The Primary Cardinal Vowels 20
    3.2 RP and GA Short Vowels 23
    Exercises 26
    4 English Phonetics: Vowels (ii) 28
    4.1 RP and GA Long Vowels 28
    4.2 RP and GA Diphthongs 30
    Exercises 33
    5 The Phonemic Principle 35
    5.1 Introduction: Linguistic Knowledge 35
    5.2 Contrast vs Predictability: The Phoneme 37
    5.3 Phonemes, Allophones and Contexts 45
    5.4 Summing Up 47
    Exercises 50
    6 English Phonemes 52
    6.1 English Consonant Phonemes 52
    6.2 The Phonological Form of Morphemes 55
    6.3 English Vowel Phonemes 60
    Exercises 63
    7 English Syllable Structure 66
    7.1 Introduction 66
    7.2 Constituency in Syllable Structure 66
    7.3 The Sonority Hierarchy, Maximal Onset and Syllable Weight 71
    7.4 Language-Specific Phonotactics 76
    7.5 Syllabic Consonants and Phonotactics 78
    7.6 Syllable-Based Generalizations 80
    7.7 Morphological Structure, Syllable Structure and Resyllabification 81
    7.8 Summing Up 84
    Exercises 85
    8 Rhythm and Word Stress in English 87
    8.1 The Rhythm of English
    8.2 English Word Stress: is it entirely random? 87
    8.3 English Word Stress: some general principles
    8.4 Word Stress Assignment in Morphologically Simple Words 90
    8.5 Word Stress Assignment and Morphological Structure 92
    8.6 Compound Words 95
    Exercises 97
    9 Rhythm, Reversal and Reduction 99
    9.1 More on the Trochaic Metrical Foot 99
    9.2 Representing Metrical Structure 105
    9.3 Phonological Generalisations and Foot Structure
    9.4 The Rhythm of English Again: Stress Timing and Eurhythmy 107
    Exercises 115
    10 English Intonation 116
    10.1 Tonic Syllables, Tones and Intonation Phrases 116
    10.2 Departures from the LLI Rule 119
    10.3 IPs and Syntactic Units 127
    10.4 Tonic Placement, IP Boundaries and Syntax 129
    10.5 Tones and Syntax
    10.6 Tonic Placement and Discourse Context 130
    Exercises
    11 Grapho-phonemics: Spelling - Pronunciation Relations
    11.1 Introduction
    11.2 Vowel Graphemes and their Phonemic Values
    11.3 Consonant Graphemes and their Phonemic Values
    Exercises
    12 Variation in English Accents 134
    12.1 Introduction 134
    12.2 Systemic vs Realizational Differences between Accents 135
    12.3 Perceptual and Articulatory Space 141
    12.4 Differences in the Lexical Distribution of Phonemes 145
    Exercises 147
    13 An Outline of Some Accents of English 149
    1 London English
    2 Tyneside English 3 Standard Scottish English
    4 New York City English
    5 Texan English
    6 Australian English
    7 Indian English
    8 An Overview of Some Common PhenomenaFound in Accent Variation 1
    Exercises
    Suggested Further Reading
    Index