English phonetics and phonology : a practical course

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English phonetics and phonology : a practical course

Peter Roach

Cambridge University Press, 2000

3rd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-279) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

  • 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

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