English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course

Peter Roach

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This is a complete basic course in English phonetics and phonology. Since its publication it has established itself as the most practical, comprehensive text in the field and become widely used in many parts of the world in universities and other institutions of higher education. It is used by both native and non-native speakers, who may be training to teach English or studying the language at an advanced level.

The new edition takes into account recent developments on the teaching of phonology, and a number of improvements have been made in response to feedback from users world wide. These include,

• updated reference
• revised transcriptions
• a wider discussion of different varieties of English
• updated treatment of intonation

The recorded exercise material remains unchanged.

English Phonetics and Phonology bridges the gap between simple pronunciation handbooks and technical phonetics and phonology textbooks. Its twenty chapters present the basic factual information and crucial theoretical issues in a concise, practical and readable way. The chapters are cross-referenced to the recordings which consist of practical exercises on two cassettes or CDs. At the end of each chapter there are notes giving information on further reading, discussion of difficult issues, written exercises and, where appropriate, suggestions for teachers.

Please note that the book does not include the cassettes or CDs.

The chapters in this book are:

• Introduction
• The production of speech sounds
• Long vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs
• Voicing and consonants
• The phoneme
• Fricatives and affricates
• Nasals and other consonants
• The syllable
• Strong and weak syllables
• Stress in simple words
• Complex word stress
• Weak forms
• Problems in phonemic analysis
• Aspects of connected speech
• Intonation 1
• Intonation 2
• Intonation 3
• Functions of intonation 1
• Functions of intonation 2
• Further ares of study in phonetics and phonology

Product Details

Paperback 283pp, 3rd Edition (2000)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0-521-78613-4

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