Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Audio Tracks ; List of Abbreviations and Phonetic Symbols ; Purpose and Scope of the Book ; 1 Phonetics and Phonology ; 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 Phonetics ; 1.2.1 Articulatory phonetics.
  • 1.2.2 Acoustic phonetics 1.2.3 Auditory phonetics ; 1.2.4 The interface of the auditory, acoustic and articulatory levels ; 1.3 Phonology ; 1.3.1 Phone, phoneme and allophone ; 1.3.2 Phonological analysis ; 1.3.3 Phonological structure ; 1.3.3.1 The syllable.
  • 1.3.3.2 Syllabic patterns in English and Spanish and advice 1.3.3.3 Syllabic consonants ; 1.4 Phonetic transcription ; 1.4.1 The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) ; 1.4.2 Types of phonetic transcription ; 1.5 Received Pronunciation (RP) and Peninsular Spanish (PSp).
  • 1.6 A guide to the phonetic transcription of RP and PSp Further reading ; Exercises ; 2 The Production and Classification of Speech Sounds ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 The organs of speech ; 2.2.1 The respiratory system and pulmonic sounds.
  • 2.2.2 The phonatory system, phonation modes and glottalic sounds 2.2.3 The articulatory system and velaric sounds ; 2.3 Articulatory features and classification of phonemes ; 2.3.1 Vowels and vowel glides ; 2.3.1.1 Tongue shape ; 2.3.1.2 Lip shape.