An Introduction to English Phonetics

ISBN-13: 9781474411769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 236 str.

Richard Ogden

Opis

The second edition of this distinguished textbook introduces undergraduates to the concepts, terminology and representations needed for an understanding of how English is pronounced around the world.
Assuming no prior knowledge, this textbook 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 what sounds of English might be significant for making meaning, and highlights the significance of word meaning, morphology, sociolinguistics and conversational interaction in phonetic analysis.

Spis treści

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction to phonetics
2 Overview of the human speech mechanism
3 Representing the sounds of speech
4 The larynx, voicing and voice quality
5 Vowels
6 Approximants
7 Plosives
8 Fricatives
9 Nasals
10 Glottalic and velaric airstreams
11 Sounds and structures
12 Conclusion
Glossary
Discussion of the exercises
Further reading
Index