Investigating Spoken English: A Practical Guide to Phonetics and Phonology Using Praat

Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 What to Expect from This Book?
1.2 Who Is This Book for?
1.3 How Is This Book Structured?
2 Fundamental Concepts
2.1 Speaking as Acquired Habits
2.2 Continuity and Contrastiveness of Speech
2.3 Context and Variability
2.4 Transcription of Speech
References
3 Articulatory Mechanisms in Speech Production
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Breathing and Airstream Mechanisms
3.3 Voicing
3.4 Other Activity Inside the Larynx
3.5 Articulation and the Activity Above the Larynx
References
4 Acoustics and Introduction to Praat
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Praat Basics
Record Your First Sound in Praat
First Steps in Navigating Praat User Interface
4.3 Sound Waves and Their Visual Representation
4.4 Periodicity, Frequency and Amplitude
4.5 Sources, Filters and Speech
4.6 Visualizing Speech with Spectrograms
5 English Vowels
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Vowel Space
5.3 English Front Vowels
5.4 English Back Vowels
5.5 English Central Vowels
5.6 English Diphthongs
References
6 English Consonants
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Stricture, Voicing, Place
6.3 English Consonants by Their Manner
Stops (Plosives)
Fricatives
Affricates
Nasals
Approximants
Lateral Approximant [l]
Median Rhotic Approximant [ɹ]
Glides (Semivowels) [w] and [j]
6.4 Sound–Spelling Correspondences for English Consonants
References
7 Allophonic Variation in English
7.1 Introduction
7.2 English Stops, Phonemes and Allophones
7.3 Other Common Allophonic Patterns
References
8 Syllables
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Mental Knowledge of Syllables
8.3 Sonority
8.4 English Syllables
8.5 Syllable Boundaries
8.6 Syllable Weight
References
9 Word Stress
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Mental Knowledge of Word Stress
9.3 Phonetic Aspects of Word Stress
9.4 Limitations of the Phonetic Aspects of Word Stress
9.5 Basic Word Stress Patterns in English
9.6 IPA Transcription of English Words
References
10 Connected Speech Aspects
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Preview of the Speaking Habits Under Investigation
10.3 Assimilations
10.4 Elisions
10.5 Linking
10.6 Processes Within Words
References
11 Prosody I: Basics
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Primer to Prosodic Analysis: Pitch Accents and Disjunctures
11.3 Weak Forms
11.4 Global Trends Within Intonational Phrases
References
12 Prosody II: Intonation
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Fundamental Frequency and Pitch in Praat
12.3 Approaches to Marking Intonation
12.4 Simplified ToBI
12.5 Basic Functional Meanings of Intonation
References
13 Prosody III: Beyond Intonational Phrase
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Discourse Markers
13.3 Conversational Fillers
13.4 Turn-Taking
13.5 Discourse Organization
13.6 Speech Entrainment
References
14 Exemplifying the Book Material in Real Interviews
14.1 Introduction
14.2 The Grinch
14.3 Bakeoff_Dialogue
14.4 Jeeves and Wooster
Further Reading
Index