An introduction to English phonetics / Richard Ogden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogden, Richard, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Edinburgh textbooks on the English language

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Phonetics.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Second Edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Books in this series provide readers with a detailed description and explanation of key areas of English Language study. The authors presuppose a bask working knowledge of the topic and explore aspects of the linguistics of English for an intermediate or advanced student readership. Assuming no prior knowledge, this second edition guides the reader through the vocal tract and explains how the sounds of speech are made, offering an accessible and expanded introduction to areas including transcription, vowels and acoustic analysis. As far as possible, it uses naturally-occurring conversational speech so that readers are familiar with the details of everyday talk (and not just the careful pronunciations presented in dictionaries). The book also includes a new concluding chapter that works through a piece of spoken data to show the reader how a more complete phonetic analysis can be conducted. Examples are taken from around the English-speaking world, including North America, Australia, New Zealand and varieties of British English. The book takes an open-minded approach to the sounds of English that might be significant for making meaning, and highlights the significance of word meaning, morphology, sociolinguistics and conversational interaction in phonetic analysis. Key Features, Introductory text assuming no prior knowledge of phonetics, Informed by up-to-date research on naturally occurring conversational English, Focuses on phonetics as a skill and encourages the reader to reflect on own speech, Covers a range of forms of phonetic representation, Revised, updated text with new material on transcription, New chapter, 'Sounds and Structures', looking at phonetic patterns in conversational speech, Audio examples accessible via www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/englishphonetics Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction to phonetics 1

1.1 What is phonetics? 1

1.2 What this book covers 3

1.3 Ways to talk about sounds 3

1.4 An overview of the book 5

Further reading 6

2 Overview of the human speech mechanism 7

2.1 The complexity of speech sounds 7

2.2 Breathing 7

2.3 The larynx and voicing 9

2.4 Airflow 10

2.5 Place of articulation 12

2.6 Manner of articulation 16

Summary 18

Exercises 18

Further reading 19

3 Representing the sounds of speech 20

3.1 Introduction 20

3.2 Phonetic transcription 20

3.3 Acoustic representations 32

3.4 Acoustic representations and segments 38

3.5 Representation and units in phonetics 38

Summary 39

Exercises 39

Further reading 41

4 The larynx, voicing and voice quality 42

4.1 Introduction 42

4.2 How the vocal folds vibrate 44

4.3 Fundamental frequency, pitch and intonation 45

4.4 Phrasing and intonation 48

4.5 Voice quality 52

Summary 56

Exercises 57

Further reading 57

5 Vowels 58

5.1 Introduction 58

5.2 Reference points for vowels: cardinal vowels 58

5.3 The acoustics of vowels 65

5.4 Other vocalic features 66

5.5 Vowels in English 'keywords' 67

5.6 Reduced vowels 77

5.7 Voiceless vowels 77

Summary 78

Exercises 78

Further reading 79

6 Approximants 80

6.1 Introduction 80

6.2 The palatal approximant [j] 81

6.3 A doubly articulated sound: the labiovelar approximant [w] 83

6.4 Laterals 85

6.5 'Rhotics' 91

Summary 95

Exercises 96

Further reading 97

7 Plosives 98

7.1 Introduction 98

7.2 Overview of the production of plosives 98

7.3 Voicing and plosives in English 101

7.4 Glottalisation 107

7.5 Long closure 108

7.6 Place of articulation 108

7.7 Release features of plosives 111

7.8 Taps 116

Summary 118

Exercises 118

Further reading 119

8 Fricatives 120

8.1 Introduction 120

8.2 The production of fricatives 120

8.3 Details of English fricatives 122

8.4 Non-lexical fricatives 133

Summary 138

Exercises 138

Further reading 139

9 Nasals 140

9.1 The production of nasals 140

9.2 Details of English nasals 142

9.3 Nasalised vowels 148

9.4 Syllabic nasals 150

Summary 154

Exercises 154

Further reading 155

10 Glottalic and velaric airstreams 156

10.1 Airstream mechanisms 156

10.2 The velaric airstream mechanism 156

10.3 The glottalic airstream mechanism 164

Summary 170

Exercises 171

Further reading 171

11 Sounds and structures 172

11.1 Introduction 172

11.2 Data 173

11.3 Assimilation: place of articulation across word boundaries 178

11.4 Glottal stops 181

11.5 Silent pauses within an utterance 184

11.6 Silent pauses after syntactic completion 187

11.7 Syntactically complete phrases followed immediately by more talk 191

Summary 191

Note on the data 192

Exercises 193

Further reading 194

12 Conclusion 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474411783

1474411789

Publisher Number:

99989049360

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