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)
Author(s): Philip Carr
Edition: 2
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 182
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
Exercises
3 English Phonetics: Vowels (i)
3.1 The Primary Cardinal Vowels
3.2 RP and GA Short Vowels
Exercises
4 English Phonetics: Vowels (ii)
4.1 RP and GA Long Vowels
4.2 RP and GA Diphthongs
Exercises
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
Exercises
6 English Phonemes
6.1 English Consonant Phonemes
6.2 The Phonological Form of Morphemes
6.3 English Vowel Phonemes
Exercises
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
Exercises
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
Exercises
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
Exercises
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
Exercises
11 Graphophonemics: Spelling–Pronunciation Relations
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Vowel Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values
11.3 Consonant Graphemes and Their Phonemic Values
Exercises
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
Exercises
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
Exercises
Suggested Further Reading
Index
