Studies in General and English Phonetics : Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. O'Connor

ISBN-13: 9780415080682 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 496 str.

Jack Lewis; J. D. O'Connor

Opis

Rhythm, intonation, exotic and familiar languages, computer-synthesized audio-communications, procedures in forensic linguistics, pronunciation lexicography, language change, and sociological aspects of speech such as English regional accents and dialects in Britian and elsewhere are covered in these 38 articles as a tribute to Professor J.D. O'Connor, one of Britain's most greatly respected teachers and writers on phonetics. The international list of 45 contributors includes former students, colleagues and admirers. This volume on descriptive and experimental phonetics and phonology should be of interest to those concerned with linguistics, phonetics or the teaching of English as a foreign language, and readers in many other fields.

Recenzje

'In summary, then, this is the kind of book which has something for everyone and lives up to the expectations raised by it sister volume.' - English Language & Linguistics, Vol 2. No. 1. 1998

Spis treści

I: General Phonetics and Phonological Theory; 1: On some neutralisations and archiphonemes in English allegro speech; 2: The phonetics of neutralisation; 3: Some articulatory characteristics of the tap; 4: Assimilations of alveolar stops and nasals in connected speech; 5: Field procedures in forensic speaker recognition; 6: Voice types in automated telecommunications applications; 7: The effect of context on the transcription of vowel quality; 8: Place of articulation features for clicks; 9: Postura; II: Pitch, Intonation and Rhythm; 10: Spelling aloud; 11: Rises in English; 12: Documenting rhythmical change; 13: The social distribution of intonation patterns in Belfast; 14: Principles of intonational typology; 15: Intonational stereotype; 16: Speech fundamental frequency over the telephone and face-to-face; 17: The effect of emphasis on declination in English intonation; 18: Nucleus placement in English and Spanish; 19: Rhythm and duration in Spanish; 20: The boundaries of intonation units; 21: Stylisation of the falling tone in Hungarian intonation; 22: The teaching of English intonation; III: The Phonetics of Mother-Tongue English; 23: A ‘tenny' rate; 24: Pronunciation and the rich points of culture; 25: Spelling pronunciation and related matters in New Zealand English; 26: Quantifying English homophones and minimal pairs; 27: Consonant-associated resonance in three varieties of English; 28: Syllabification and rhythm in non-segmental phonology; 29: The vowels of Scottish English – formants and features; 30: A neglected feature of British East Midlands accents and its possible implications for the history of a vowel merger in English; 31: Mixing and fudging in Midland and Southern dialects of England; 32: The low vowels of Vancouver English; 33: New syllabic consonants in English; IV: The Phonetics of Non-Mother-Tongue English; 34: Approaches to articulatory setting in foreign-language teaching; 35: The English accent of the Shilluk speaker; 36: Segmental errors in the pronunciation of Danish speakers of English; 37: Describing the pronunciation of loanwords from English; 38: What do EFL teachers need to know about pronunciation?

O autorze

Jack Windsor Lewis