English phonetics and phonology : an introduction / Philip Carr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carr, Philip, 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Phonetics.

English language.

English language--Phonology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.

Summary:

The second edition of the popular English Phonetics and Phonology textbook has been extensively updated and expanded to offer greater flexibility for teachers and increased support for non-native speakers studying the sound systems of English. An ideal introduction to the study of the sound systems of English, designed for those with no previous knowledge of the subject Second edition now rigorously updated and expanded to reflect feedback from existing students and to increase support for non-native speakers of English Benefits from a useful introduction to articulatory phonetics, along with coverage of the main aspects of the phonological structure of present-day English Features a completely new chapter on the relationship between English spelling and pronunciation, extended coverage of intonation, and extensive revisions to sections on rhythm, word stress, intonation and varieties of English worldwide Will include invaluable chapter-by-chapter exercises, linked to sound files available on the accompanying website at www.wiley.com/go/carrphonetics (available upon publication).

Contents:

Intro

English Phonetics and Phonology: An Introduction

Contents

List of Sound Recordings

Prefaces to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgements

Figure 1 The organs of speech

Figure 2 The International Phonetic Alphabet

1 English Phonetics: Consonants (i)

1.1 Airstream and Articulation

1.2 Place of Articulation

1.3 Manner of Articulation: Stops, Fricatives and Approximants

Exercises

2 English Phonetics: Consonants (ii)

2.1 Central vs Lateral

2.2 Taps and Trills

2.3 Secondary Articulation

2.4 Affricates

2.5 Aspiration

2.6 Nasal Stops

3 English Phonetics: Vowels (i)

3.1 The Primary Cardinal Vowels

3.2 RP and GA Short Vowels

4 English Phonetics: Vowels (ii)

4.1 RP and GA Long Vowels

4.2 RP and GA Diphthongs

5 The Phonemic Principle

5.1 Introduction: Linguistic Knowledge

5.2 Contrast vs Predictability: The Phoneme

5.3 Phonemes, Allophones and Contexts

5.4 Summing Up

6 English Phonemes

6.1 English Consonant Phonemes

6.2 The Phonological Form of Morphemes

6.3 English Vowel Phonemes

7 English Syllable Structure

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Constituency in Syllable Structure

7.3 The Sonority Hierarchy, Maximal Onset and Syllable Weight

7.4 Language-Specific Phonotactics

7.5 Syllabic Consonants and Phonotactics

7.6 Syllable-Based Generalizations

7.7 Morphological Structure, Syllable Structure and Resyllabification

7.8 Summing Up

8 Rhythm and Word Stress in English

8.1 The Rhythm of English

8.2 English Word Stress: Is It Entirely Random?

8.3 English Word Stress: Some General Principles

8.4 Word Stress Assignment in Morphologically Simple Words

8.5 Word Stress Assignment and Morphological Structure

8.6 Compound Words.

8.7 Summing Up

9 Rhythm, Reversal and Reduction

9.1 More on the Trochaic Metrical Foot

9.2 Representing Metrical Structure

9.3 Phonological Generalizations and Foot Structure

9.4 The Rhythm of English Again: Stress Timing and Eurhythmy

10 English Intonation

10.1 Tonic Syllables, Tones and Intonation Phrases

10.2 Departures from the LLI Rule

10.3 IPs and Syntactic Units

10.4 Tonic Placement, IP Boundaries and Syntax

10.5 Tones and Syntax

10.6 Tonic Placement and Discourse Context

10.7 Summing Up

11 Graphophonemics: Spelling-Pronunciation Relations

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Vowel Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values

11.3 Consonant Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values

12 Variation in English Accents

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Systemic vs Realizational Differences between Accents

12.3 Perceptual and Articulatory Space

12.4 Differences in the Lexical Distribution of Phonemes

13 An Outline of Some Accents of English

13.1 Some British Accents

13.2 Two American Accents

13.3 Two Southern Hemisphere Accents

13.4 An Overview of Some Common Phenomena Found in Accent Variation

Suggested Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1118347471

9781118347478

OCLC:

827207907