American English phonetic transcription

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American English phonetic transcription

Paul Carley and Inger M. Mees

Routledge, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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American English Phonetic Transcription provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic, and intonational transcription with a focus on American English. Featuring exercises, revision tasks, and recordings to help students gain hands-on practice, the book takes a learning-by-doing approach and ensures students gain practice using each new symbol or concept introduced before moving on to the next. Consisting of three parts, the book covers: transcribing individual words, including consonants, vowels, primary stress, secondary stress, syllabic consonants, and inflections; transcribing phrases and sentences, including weak forms, elision, and assimilation; transcribing intonation, including the structure of English intonation and recognizing pitch patterns. Ideally suited as a standalone workbook or for use alongside British English Phonetic Transcription, American English Phonetic Transcription is key reading for undergraduate students of linguistics as well as anyone teaching or learning English as a foreign language.

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Symbols for phonemic transcription Phonetic symbols and diacritics The International Phonetic Alphabet Preface and acknowledgments Before you start transcribing... PART A: TRANSCRIBING WORDS 1. The familiar consonants /p b t d k g f v s z h m n w l r/ and the vowels /I ae e a / 2. Primary stress, unstressed schwa /a/, unstressed schwar /ar/, and unstressed KIT /I/ 3. Consonants with unfamiliar symbols / j n d/ and /t/-voicing 4. The FLEECE /i/ and the GOOSE /u/ vowels 5. The PALM / /, THOUGHT /o/, SPORT /o/, stressed schwa /ar/ vowels, and DRESS /e/ and TRAP /ae/ before /r/ 6. The FACE /eI/, PRICE /aI/, and CHOICE /oI/ vowels 7. The GOAT /o /and MOUTH /a / vowels 8. FLEECE /i/ and GOOSE /u/ before /r/ 9. Syllabic consonants 10. Secondary stress 11. Inflections and epenthesis PART B: TRANSCRIBING CONNECTED SPEECH 12. Connected speech and liaison 13. Stress and weak forms 14. Elision 15. Assimilation 16. Connected speech: extended practice PART C: TRANSCRIBING INTONATION 17. An introduction to intonation 18. Nucleus and tail 19. Head and pre-head 20. Intonation: extended practice APPENDICES A. Summary of consonant and vowel theory B. Phonetic transcription References and suggested reading Index

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