Book Information
Practical Phonetics and Phonology 2e
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of tracks on audio CD
Acknowledgements
List of phonetic symbols
A: Introduction
- English worldwide
- Phoneme and allophone
- Connected speech and phonemic transcription
- How we produce speech
- Consonant possibilities
- Vowel possibilities
B: Development
- Phoneme and syllable revisited
- English consonants
- English vowels
- English spelling
- Features of connected speech
- Stress and rhythm
- Speech melody
C: Exploration
- Accent variation — General American
- Accents of the British Isles 1: England
- Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties
- World accent varieties
- Pronunciation change: past, present, future
- Teaching and learning a foreign language
D: Extension
- RP — R.I.P.? (David Abercrombie)
- Attitudes to accents (Daniel Jones)
- Pronunciation worries (David Crystal)
- Phonetics applied to teaching the deaf (Dennis Fry)
- Making computers talk (Peter Ladefoged)
- Using phonetics in criminal investigations (Maurice Varney)
- The rise of ‘upspeak’ (Barbara Bradford)
- How children learn the meaning of intonation (David Crystal)
- English accents and their implications for spelling reform (J.C. Wells)
- The sociolinguistics of modern RP (Peter Trudgill)
Glossary
Further reading
References
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Index