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Practical phonetics and phonology : a resource book for students / Beverley Collins and Inger M. Mees.

By: Collins, Beverley.
Contributor(s): Mees, Inger M.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Routledge English language introductions series: Publisher: London : Routledge, 2008Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xix, 305 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 1 CD-ROM.ISBN: 0415422663 (hbk.) ; 041542514X (pbk.).Subject(s): English language -- Phonetics | English language -- PhonologyDDC classification: 421.5
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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-five 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 Wells; 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.

The accompanying website to this book can be found at http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/reli/

nd West Africa.

New features of this edition include: new readings by Peter Trudgill and John Wells; 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.

The accompanying website to this book can be found at http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/reli/

Previous edition published 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of figures (p. ix)
  • List of tables (p. xii)
  • List of tracks on audio CD (p. xiii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xv)
  • List of phonetic symbols (p. xviii)
  • A Introduction (p. 1)
  • 1 English worldwide (p. 2)
  • 2 Phoneme and allophone (p. 8)
  • 3 Connected, speech and phonemic transcription (p. 16)
  • 4 How we produce speech (p. 26)
  • 5 Consonant possibilities (p. 41)
  • 6 Vowel possibilities (p. 58)
  • B Development (p. 69)
  • 1 Phoneme and syllable revisited (p. 70)
  • 2 English consonants (p. 79)
  • 3 English vowels (p. 96)
  • 4 English spelling (p. 105)
  • 5 Features of connected speech (p. 115)
  • 6 Stress and rhythm (p. 123)
  • 7 Speech melody (p. 132)
  • C Exploration (p. 149)
  • 1 Accent variation - General American (p. 150)
  • 2 Accents of the British Isles 1: England (p. 158)
  • 3 Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties (p. 171)
  • 4 World accent varieties (p. 179)
  • 5 Pronunciation change: past, present, future (p. 193)
  • 6 Teaching and learning a foreign language (p. 208)
  • D Extension (p. 223)
  • 1 RP - R.I.P.? (p. 224)
  • 2 Attitudes to accents (p. 228)
  • 3 Pronunciation worries (p. 232)
  • 4 Phonetics applied to teaching the deaf (p. 236)
  • 5 Making computers talk (p. 239)
  • 6 Using phonetics in criminal investigations (p. 245)
  • 7 The rise of 'upspeak' (p. 248)
  • 8 How children learn the meaning of intonation (p. 253)
  • 9 English accents and their implications for spelling reform (p. 257)
  • 10 The sociolinguistics of modern RP (p. 264)
  • Glossary (p. 273)
  • Further reading (p. 286)
  • References (p. 292)
  • The International Phonetic Alphabet (p. 295)
  • Index (p. 296)