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Practical phonetics and phonology : a resource book for students /

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings-all in t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collins, Beverley
Otros Autores: Mees, Inger M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Edición:3rd ed.
Colección:Routledge English language introductions series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: A. Introduction
  • 1. English worldwide
  • 2. Phoneme, allophone and syllable
  • 3. Connected speech and phonemic transcription
  • 4. How we produce speech
  • 5. Consonant possibilities
  • 6. Vowel possibilities
  • B. Development
  • 1. Phoneme and syllable revisited
  • 2. English consonants
  • 3. English vowels
  • 4. English spelling
  • 5. Features of connected speech
  • 6. Stress and rhythm
  • 7. Speech melody
  • C. Exploration
  • 1. Accent variation
  • General American
  • 2. Accents of the British Isles 1: England
  • 3. Accents of the British Isles 2: Celtic-influenced varieties
  • 4. World accent varieties
  • 5. Pronunciation change: past, present, future
  • 6. Teaching and learning a foreign language
  • D. Extension
  • 1. RP
  • R.I.P.? (David Abercrombie)
  • 2. Attitudes to accents (Daniel Jones)
  • 3. Pronunciation worries (David Crystal)
  • 4. Teaching the pronunciation of a second language (Peter Avery and Susan Ehrlich)
  • 5. Phonetics applied to teaching the deaf (Dennis Fry)
  • 6. Making computers talk (Peter Ladefoged)
  • 7. Using phonetics in criminal investigations (Maurice Varney)
  • 8. The rise of `upspeak' (Barbara Bradford)
  • 9. English accents and their implications for spelling reform (J.C. Wells)
  • 10. The sociolinguistics of modern RP (Peter Trudgill).